Twenty Questions

J. D. McClatchy is the author of four collections of poems: Scenes from Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, and ＂Ten Commandments.＂ His literary essays are collected in White Paper, which won the Melville Cane Award granted by the Poetry Society of America. He is the editor of The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has served, since 1991, as the editor of the Yale Review. Named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1996, he received an award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1991. He lives in New York City.