Kazim Ali?s most recent book of poetry is The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions). Forthcoming in 2009 are two books, a novel, The Disappearance of Seth, from Etruscan Press, and a prose memoir, Bright Felon, from Wesleyan University Press. Kazim Ali is founding editor of Nightboat Books (www.nightboat.org) and teaches at Oberlin College and in the Stonecoast MFA program.