WILLIAM WENTHE’s fourth book of poems, God’s Foolishness, was published by LSU Press in April 2016. He has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Texas Institute of Letters, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Open City, Tin House; and other journals and anthologies. Critical essays on the craft of poetry have appeared in The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review. He teaches at Texas Tech University.