Kristen Case is Assistant Professor of English at University of Maine Farmington. She teaches courses in American Literature, environmental writing, and the intersection of poetry and philosophy. She has published articles on Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost and Ezra Pound and is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Chelsea, The Brooklyn Review, Pleiades, Saint Ann’s Review and The Iowa Review.