In the wake of Richard Blanco's recitation of the poem he was asked to write as part of Barack Obama's second presidential inauguration, any reasonable
Jonathan Fink is an Associate Professor and the Director of Creative Writing at University of West Florida. His poems and essays have appeared or forthcoming in Poetry, New England Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Witness, and The Southern Review. He has received the Editors' Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,