Joseph Lease received his MFA from Brown University and his PhD from Harvard. His poems have been published in Paris Review, Pequod, The Boston Review (featured by Robert Creeley), Boulevard, and elsewhere. He currently teaches writing at the California College of the Arts. (updated 6/2010)

Lease’s collection The Room was reviewed in AGNI 42 by Forrest Gander.

Lease’s collection Human Rights was reviewed in AGNI 51 by Jim Behrle.