William Harmon is Professor of English at UNC Chapel Hill. He is the author of Treasury Holiday, Legion: Civic Choruses, and Mutatis Mutandis (Wesleyan), One Long Poem (LSU), and The Intussusception of Miss Mary America (Kayak). He edited The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, Macmillan's Handbook to Literature, and The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry. His first book of poems won the Lamont Award, and his fifth collection received the William Carlos Williams Award.