Jerry Bradley is Professor of English at Lamar University. He is the author of four books, including The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s (Twayne) and a collection of poetry entitled Simple Versions of Disaster (University of North Texas Press), which was commended by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. His poetry has appeared in many literary magazines, including New England Review, American Literary Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Poetry Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review. He is also Poetry Editor of Concho River Review and is Past-President of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers and of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association.