Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry and Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries; co-author, with mIEKAL aND, of three books of poetry; and co-editor, with Ira Livingston, of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader.