Duane Esposito is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College. He has an M.A. from SUNY Brockport and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. His work was selected by Diane Glancy for an Academy of American Poets Award & his poems have been published in dozens of journals. His collections are The Book of Bubba (Brown Dog Press, 1998), Cadillac Battleship (brokenTribe Press, 2005), Declaration for Your Bones (Yuganta Press, 2012), Dropping Death, a collaboration with Ralph Nazareth (Yuganta Press, 2018), & Panic’s Hymn, a reissue / re- imagining of Cadillac Battleship. (GloveBox Poems, 2018). He lives on Long Island—on Lopsided Farm— with his wife, daughter, son, & many animals.