The author of Planned Solstice (Iowa), David Micah Greenberg’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, and other publications, and have received awards from NEH and the American Academy of Poets. A former organizer with homeless men and women and the advocacy and policy director of a coalition of 90 neighborhood housing organizations in New York City, he now designs and evaluates community initiatives for a national nonprofit. Published essays on poetry and the public sphere have appeared in Poets and Writers and provoked a forum in The Boston Review.