In a Diner Above the Lamoille River

Greg Delanty is Artist-in-Residence and Poet at Saint Michael's College in Vermont. His poetry collections include Collected Poems, 1986–2006 (2006); The Ship of Birth (2003); The Blind Stitch (2001); The Hellbox (1998); American Wake (1995); Southward (1992); and Cast in the Fire (1986). He has been honored by the Poetry Society of England, the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Royal Literary Fund, among others. In 2007, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. He is currently the Vice President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and will be its next President.