John Hodgen teaches writing at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006). His fourth book of poetry Heaven & Earth Holding Company came out from University of Pittsburgh Press (2010), and his first book, In My Father’s House, has just been reprinted from Lynx House Press/University of Washington Press (2012). A recent poem has been selected for Scribner’s Best American Poetry 2017. Links: hodgen@hotmail.com and johnhodgen.blogspot.com.