DAVID YEZZI’s has published Sad Is Eros (Aralia Press) and The Hidden Model (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press). His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was recently released on CD by Arsis. A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City, he is executive editor of The New Criterion.