M G StephensM. G. Stephens is author of over 30 books, including The Coole Trilogy, consisting of the novels Season at Coole, The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, and Kid Coole. His novel King Ezra (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), has been translated into Italian as Re Ezra. I the recent past he has written such books as the hybrid work of poetry, fiction and fact, History of Theatre or the Glass of Fashion (MadHat Press, 2021), and the story collection Jesus' Dog (Paycock Press, 2024). Spuyten Duyvil will soon publish his linked stories, Come On, Eileen, and his long-awaited memoir When Poetry Was the World, about the early days of the Poetry Project in 1966. (He wrote a PhD on the Poetry Project at the University of Essex in Colchester, England from 2003 to 2006.) Stephens also continues to publish such poetry in such books as Sixmilebridge (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and Popeye, Unchained (2025), a collaboration of 85 mostly unrhyming blank verse sonnets accompanied by 85 collages by Brooklyn artist Archie Rand. Read More Read Less