Michael Rob­bins is a doc­toral can­di­date in Eng­lish at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Fence, The Baf­fler, & sev­eral other jour­nals; his crit­i­cism in Poetry & the London Review of Books. His essay on “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.