James Nolan has taught writing and literature at universities in Florida, San Francsico, Barcelona, Madrid,and Beijing. His Ph.D. in comparative literature is from the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz),and recently he has been writer-in-residence at Tulane and Loyola universities in his native New Orleans, where for twelve years he directed the Loyola Writing Institute at Loyola University. His poetry has been widely translated into Spanish, and he often performs his work in collaboration with musicians. He is also the author of Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda (University of New Mexico Press), and of a collection of personal essays published in Madrid (Enigma Editores).