Aram Saroyan’s Door to the River: Essays and Reviews From the 1960s Into the Digital Age will be published by Black Sparrow/Godine in 2010. His eleventh book of poems, Complete Minimal Poems (Ugly Duckling, 2007), includes earlier works—Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), Pages (Random House, 1969) and The Rest (Telegraph, 1971)—and won the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. [bio updated 2011]