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James Longenbach received his BA from Trinity College and his MA and PhD from Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Rochester, Princeton University, and Oxford University, and has received NEH, Guggenheim, Mellon, and Whiting foundation awards. He is the author of four collections of poems, The Iron Key, Draft of a Letter, Fleet River, and Threshold, as well as of several books of literary criticism, most recently The Art of the Poetic Line. His poems have appeared recently in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Threepenny Review, and he reviews contemporary poetry regularly for The New York Times Book Review and The Nation. He is currently the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester, where he teaches contemporary literature and creative writing.