Nick Flynn, in previous incarnations, has worked as a ship’s captain, an electrician, and a caseworker with homeless adults. Currently he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston, where he is in residence each spring. His most recent book is The Reenactments (Norton, 2013). The poem in AGNI 80 is from the forthcoming collection My Feelings (Graywolf, 2015). (updated 10/2014)