Michael Benedikt was born in New York City. He received a B.A. from New York University in 1956 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1961. While working on his master's degree he was an editor for Horizon Press, and from 1963-1972 he was an editorial associate for Art News. He also served as New York correspondent for Art International (1965-1967) and, more recently, as poetry editor of the Paris Review (1974-1978). In addition to editing, he has taught at Bennington College (1967-1968), Sarah Lawrence College (1968-1973), Hampshire College (1973-1975), and Vassar College (1974-1975), and he has been since 1977 a visiting professor of English and creative writing at Boston University. Besides the respect he has won as an influential critic and editor, he has been awarded the Bess Hokin Prize for the best group of poems in Poetry magazine (1968), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969), a National Endowment for the Arts...