ALEXANDER LONG’s fourth book of poems, On Distance, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2018. Work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Blackbird, Callaloo, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New Letters, Quarter After Eight, Reed, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle, among others. With Christopher Buckley, Long is co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Work and Life of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP 2004). Professor of English at John Jay College of the City University of New York, Long is also writing a biography of Larry Levis.