Richard Meier is the author of Terrain Vague, selected by Tomaž Šalamun for the Verse Prize in 2000 and published by Verse Press (now available from Wave Books) and Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar, published by Wave Books in 2006. A new book, In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary, will be published by Omnidawn in fall 2012. In March of 2011 he collaborated on slope.org’s “The Weather at Five O’Clock with Brandon Shimoda, Jared Stanley, Lisa Fishman, Lucas Farrell, Sandra Doller, Sara Mumolo. He lives in Chicago and Madison and is writer-in-residence at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI.