Robert Fitterman is the author of 15 books of poetry, including Rob’s Word Shop (Ugly Duckling Presse), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse), This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books), and Metropolis, published in four volumes. Forthcoming in Spring 2024 is Creve Coeur (Winter Editions), a long poem that transposes WC Williams’s Paterson onto the suburban Midwest. He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Sabine Herrmann, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University. He can found online at www.robertfitterman.com. (Image Credit: drawing by Don Colley)