Lenny Emmanuel’s first collection of poems, The Icecream Lady, was published in 1997 by Ramparts, Inc. His poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in Parnassus, Free Lunch, Yawp, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, Agenda, and Antioch Review. He has served as an editor with The New Laurel Review in New Orleans, and lives not far away in Pass Christian, Mississippi. He maintains a web site at http://lennyemmanuel.com.