Steve Kowit is the author of several collections of poetry and In The Palm Of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop. He has translated Pablo Neruda’s Incitement To Nixoncide and Praise for the Chilean Revolution, edited The Maverick Poets, is the recipient of an NEA, and other awards, and teaches in the graduate writing program at San Diego State University. He is poetry editor of the online magazine Serving House Journal and has a weekly poetry column in The San Diego Reader.