Poet, translator, and editor Peter Covino is associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of the poetry collections, The Right Place to Jump (2012), recently featured on NPR, the Huffington Post and The Rumpus, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence; and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005) both from W. Michigan University Press, New Issues. Additional prizes include the 2007 PEN American/ Osterweil Award for emerging poets and the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize for his chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001). Recent poems appeared in such places as the American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, The Journal, Interim, LIT, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing, among others.