I am the Caldwell Professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and I specialize in post-1900 literature and culture and American poetry. I am the author of three books -- "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945" (which has just been published by Cambridge University Press), "Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry," and "Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture." My work has appeared in many journals, essay collections, and magazines, including the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Contemporary Literature, American Literary History, Wallace Stevens Journal, Journal of Modern Literature, and many others.