Tony Trigilio is the author of the book of poems, The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles, 2006). His poems also have appeared recently in Cream City Review, Diagram, La Petite Zine, MiPoesias, North American Review, Rattle, and the anthology The City Visible: Chicago Poetry For The New Century (Cracked Slab, 2007). He also is the author of the recently published book of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), and a forthcoming literature anthology, co-edited with Tim Prchal, titled Visions And Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers UP; due out in March 2008). He teaches at Columbia College Chicago, where he directs the program in Creative Writing - Poetry and co-edits the poetry journal Court Green.