Piotr Gwiazda’s recent books include US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979–2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Aspects of Strangers (Moira Books, 2015). His translation of Zero Visibility: New Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski is forthcoming from Phoneme Media. He is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).