Kristen CaseKristen Case is the author of the critical study American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe. Her first poetry collection, Little Arias, won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and hr second collection, Principles of Economics, won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is co-editor of Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments and director of Thoreau’s Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau. She teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is director of the New Commons Project, a public humanities initiative sponsored by the Mellon foundation. She lives in Temple, Maine. Read More Read Less