JONATHAN SKINNER founded the journal ecopoetics. His books include Chip Calls (Little Red Leaves, 2014), Birds of Tifft (BlazeVOX, 2011), Warblers (Albion, 2010) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). He teaches writing, theory, and literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.