John Tessitore has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, and a biographer. He has taught British and American history and literature at colleges around Boston and has directed national policy studies on education, civil justice, and cultural policy. Most recently, he has published poems in the American Journal of Poetry, Canary, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Wild Roof, Magpie Lit, the Sunday Mornings at the River anthology and forthcoming in The Closed Eye Open, Gastropoda, Boats Against the Current, and the Wee Sparrow anthology.