Joseph Campana is a poet, arts writer, and scholar. He is the author of acollection of poems, The Book of Faces, and has received grants from the NEA andthe Houston Arts Alliance. You can find his poems, essays, and reviews of books,dance, theater, and visual arts writing in Slate, Poetry, Guernica, DanceInternational, Culture Vulture, Explore Dance, BigRed&Shiny, and the KenyonReview. He teaches at Rice University. He teaches Renaissance literature andcreative writing at Rice University.