James Longenbach (1959–2022) published six poetry collections in his lifetime—Threshold (University of Chicago Press, 1998), Fleet River (University of Chicago, 2003), Draft of a Letter (University of Chicago, 2007), The Iron Key (W. W. Norton & Co, 2010), Earthling (National Geographic Books, 2017), and Forever (National Geographic, 2021)—along with nine books of literary criticism, including The Lyric Now (University of Chicago Press, 2020), How Poems Get Made (W. W. Norton, 2018), and The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf Press, 2008). His fifth book of poems, Earthling, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester until his death.