C. K. Williams’s most recent book of poems, Wait, was published in 2010, as was his study of Walt Whitman, On Whitman. He will bring out a new book of poems, Writers Writing Dying, and a book of essays, In Time: On Poetry, Poets and the Rest, in the autumn of 2012.He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.