is the author of three books of poems, Body of the World, Nude Descending an Empire, and The Book of Fools. His poems have appears in such journals as The New Republic, AGNI, Orion Magazine, Poetry Daily, and The Kenyon Review. A native of Miami, he has been a wilderness caretaker in the mountain of northern New Mexico and traveled around the world with the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He currently tends a wild garden in Kansas, where he is a Professor in the MFA Program at Wichita State.
