Robert BensenRobert Bensen is a poet, essayist, teacher, editor, and publisher in Upstate New York. Most recent among seven collections of poetry are What Lightning Spoke and Before, Orenoque, Wetumka & Other Poems (Bright Hill Press). Poetry and literary essays ave appeared in AGNI, Akwe: kon, Antioch Review, Berfrois, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Jamaica Journal, La presa, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Wales, and elsewhere. He has edited anthologies of Native American and Caribbean literature, and authored a bibliographic study, American Indian and Aboriginal Canadian Childhood Studies, at Oxford University Press online. Read More Read Less