John Belk is an associate professor of English at Southern Utah University and author of the chapbook The Weathering of Igneous Rockforms in High-Altitude Riparian Environments. His poems have appeared in the Maine Review, Jet Fuel Review, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill, Poetry South, Crab Orchard Review, and Sport Literate, among others. He has published articles in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Forum, and various anthologies. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.