Benjamin Landry is working toward his MFA in poetry at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, Salamander, Sonora Review, Sou’wester, and [PANK], and is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Drunken Boat. He won the 2009 Columbia Journal Poetry Contest, and his manuscript Particle and Wave, structured after the periodic table of elements, was a finalist in the 2012 National Poetry Series Open Competition. (updated 9/2012)