John Foy’s first book is Techne’s Clearinghouse (Zoo Press). His poems have appeared in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Criterion, Parnassus, The Raintown Review, and many other journals, and on line at Poetry Daily, Kin, The Nervous Breakdown, Umbrella,and other sites. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Four Way Books Levis Prize. Recently he was a guest blogger for the Best American Poetry website. He lives in New York with his wife, son, and daughter. http://johnffoy.net/