Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siecle in international and French poetry. Keith Waldrop is the author of more than twenty poetry collections, including Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009), which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2009, and an inspired translator of French poetry from Charles Baudelaire to Edmond Jabes, Claude Royet-Journoud, and Anne-Marie Albiach, honored by the French government as a Chevalier des arts et des lettres. He has also published the acclaimed memoir Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993) and a collection of his collages, Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009). For more than fifty years, with Rosmarie Waldrop, he ran the legendary small press Burning Deck. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a professor emeritus of Brown University. K.A. Hays is the author of four collections of poetry: Anthropocene Lullaby (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022), Windthrow (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017), Early Creatures, Native Gods (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), and Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009). Hays' poetry has been included in volumes of Best American Poetry and many magazines. In 2005, Hays earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University, where she worked with Keith Waldrop. Hays currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at Bucknell University.