Carl Landauer, a visiting scholar with UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies and contributing editor for Poetry Flash, taught history at Yale, Stanford, and McGill. His book of poems on film adaptions of literature, The Reel and the Paperback: Refracted Ekphrases, is forthcoming with Sagging Meniscus Press. His poems have appeared or will appear in the Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Exacting Clam, VerseVille, Poetry Flash, Santa Clara Review, Bangalore Review, Pembroke Magazine, Orange Blossom Review, Caveat Lector, Life and Legends, and the Mary McCarthy Society website, and his writing on cultural history has appeared in Beat Scene, Salmagundi, The American Scholar, and Renaissance Quarterly—as well as a critical analysis of Project 2025 published by Public Seminar.