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Christopher Schmidt
Christopher Schmidt is an Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. He is the author of a critical study, The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith; a book of poems, The Next in Line; and a chapbook, Thermae. His poems, essays, and articles have been published in Tin House, SubStance, Arizona Quarterly, Court Green, The Village Voice, Time Magazine, and other venues.