Judith Baumel is a poet, critic and translator. She is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University. She also lectures on modern and contemporary American poetry at Oxford University, UK. A former director of the Poetry Society of America, her poetry, translations and essays have been published in Poetry, The Agni Review, The Yale Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Her books are The Weight of Numbers; Now; and The Kangaroo Girl. http://www.judithbaumel.com [2]