William Wenthe is the author of Birds of Hoboken (Orchises, 1995) and Not Till We Are Lost (LSU, 2003). He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Commission on the Arts. He teaches creative writing and modern poetry at Texas Tech University. On March 6, 2004 he participated in the Smartish Pace Reading Series at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Baltimore. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 8 and 12.