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KGB Poetry: Jill Alexander Essbaum & Robert Polito
Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of the poetry books Necropolis, Harlot, Oh Forbidden and Heaven. She was the recipient of an NEA literature grant and has taught at Concordia University in Austin, and the University of Texas.
Robert Polito is the Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at The New School and the author of the two books of poems, Hollywood and God and Doubles. He is also the author of A Readers Guide to James Merrill’s “The Changing Light at Sandover” and Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. The editor of The Selected Poems of Kenneth Fearing and Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930’s and 40’s, he lives in New Paltz and New York City.