Education
He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida. He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College. He was an United States/United Kingdom Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and an National Education Association fellowship
His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Harpers, The Nation, Commonweal, American Poetry Review, Triquarterly, and Poetry.
He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.