Christopher Bakken is the author of Goat Funeral (2006) and After Greece (2001) and he is co-translator of The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios (2006). His new work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Subtropics, Seattle Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. He lives in Pennsylvania. His Allegheny College faculty page can be found here.