Steven P. Schneider is a professor of English at the University of Texas-Pan American and director of new programs and special projects in the College of Arts and Humanities. He is the authorof A. R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope and the editor of Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A. R. Ammons’s Long Poems. The winner of an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poetry and a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship, he has published poems and essays in national and international journals, including Critical Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, The Literary Review, and The Iowa Review.