Jack Foley has published 17 books of poetry, 5 books of criticism, a book of stories, and a 1300- page “chronoencyclopedia,” Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry 1940-2005. He has presented poetry on radio station KPFA since 1988 and has received two Lifetime Achievement Awards. A new book of Foley’s poetry, When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs has recently appeared, and Duet of Polygon, a collaboration with Japanese poet Maki Starfield, is forthcoming. Poet scholars Dana Gioia and Peter Whitfield have edited Jack Foley’s Unmanageable Masterpiece, a book of essays dealing with Foley’s Visions & Affiliations.

Image: The Lovers 1928, by René Magritte