David Ben-Merre teaches classes on 20th-century literature, literary theory, and poetry at Buffalo State College. He is the author of Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry (SUNY Press, 2018) and coauthor of Super Schoolmaster: Ezra Pound as Teacher, Then and Now (SUNY Press, 2021), and he spends most of his remaining time with dogs, collegiate mock trial, and crosswords.