Michael Rob­bins is a doc­toral can­di­date in Eng­lish at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago. His second poem in The New Yorker will be pub­lished soon. Other poems have appeared or are forth­com­ing in Fence, La Petite Zine, The Hat, & sev­eral other jour­nals. His crit­i­cism appears in Poetry, London Review of Books, Chicago Review, & Boston Review. His essay “Paul Muldoon’s Covert Operations” is forth­com­ing in Modern Philol­ogy. If you are on an Eng­lish depart­ment hiring com­mit­tee, please email him imme­di­ately. For more infor­ma­tion, date him.