Michael Robins is the author of three poetry collections including Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011) and In Memory of Brilliance & Value (Saturnalia Books, 2015). He teaches literature and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. Her chapbook Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015) was awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Hadara Bar-Nadav to Michael Robins 2/23/12 Dear Michael— We lease our daily words for 32¢ a day. A slip of paper passes between hands, a handshake, serif, cliff- face of Cinque Terre or Multnomah Falls. Where is the Golden State? Have you visited all the exotic vistas on your postcards? I’ve stepped inside each one. Michael Robins to Hadara Bar-Nadav February 29, 2012 Dear Hadara, That you I imagine chasing the mailman, also rescues felines. Beneath the secret sized in one glove, teacups in a sink— It’s not a mailman after all, just papers over artery & flesh. Horses— I imagine you ride too, days improved right here.