Stephen Yenser, whose poems have appeared in the Partisan Review, the Nation, the New Yorker, the Yale Review, and other magazines, has been the recipient of two Fulbright teaching fellowships and a Discovery/Nation Poetry Award. A native of Wichita, he is professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles and the author of The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merill and Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell.
