Bruce Beasley is a professor of English at Western Washington University and the author of eight collections of poems, including most recently All Soul Parts Returned (2017) and Theophobia (2012), both from BOA Editions. He has won the Colorado Prize for Poetry (selected by Charles Wright) for Summer Mystagogia; the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award for The Creation; and the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award for Lord Brain, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust. He has won three Pushcart prizes for poetry and his recent poems appear in Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Field, Southern Review, and other journals. Presented in partnership with the FIU Writers on the Bay Series.