Piotr Gwiazda is the author of Gagarin Street: Poems (WWPH, 2005) and Messages: Poems & Interview (Pond Road, 2012). He was Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut, in the fall of 2008. He teaches modern and contemporary poetry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Gwiazda has new poems in Smartish Pace Issue 19; he’s also read for SP and his videos are in the media section. [2012]