Jack Myers born in Massachusetts, is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Southern Methodist University; he also teaches in the low-residency Vermont College master of fine arts program in writing. He is co-editor of New American Poets of the 90’s, the author of six volumes of poetry, the latest being Blindsided (David R. Godine, 1993), and co-editor of five other reference works on poetry, including A Profile of American Poetry in the 20th Century, The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms, and the CD-anthology, Leaning House Poets, Vol. 1. He was a 1985 National Poetry Series Open Competition winner for his book, As Long As You’re Happy (selected by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney), and has received two Texas Inst...