John Pursley III teaches at Clemson University. He is the author of If You Have Ghosts, the Editors’ Poetry Prize Selection for Zone 3 Press. He has also published four chapbooks: A Story Without Poverty (Stepping Stones Press), Supposing, for Instance, Here in the Space-Time Continuum (Apprentice House Press), A Conventional Weather (New Michigan Press), and When, by the Titanic (Portlandia Press). His work has appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, and Poetry. (updated 8/2012)