J.D. McClatchy is the author of eight collections of poetry including Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems. He has edited numerous other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has written a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is editor of the Yale Review.

This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA. Poetry is supported, in part, by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.