The Dot Four are Dorchester neighbors who gather regularly to cultivate growth in their poetry. They are Meg Campbell, Sandra Kohler, Jean Knox, and Connie Veenendaal. Meg Campbell is founder and Executive Director of Codman Academy Charter Public School in Dorchester, and author of Solo Crossing, and editor of Split Verse: Poems to Heal Your Heart, and just published, More Love. Sandra Kohler recently published Improbable Music and two previous collections, and has published in journals such as the New Republic and Prairie Schooner. Jean Knox, formerly an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, now a freelance writer, has published four books on science and health, a history of the Longy School of Music, and articles for the Boston Globe Magazine. A poet for many years, she now concentrates on writing poems. Connie Veenendaal, an OLLI member, taught in the English department of UMass Boston. She has published three collections of poems. She was one of the founders of the cooperative poetry press, Alice James Books, now celebrating its 40th anniversary.