Thomas Devaney is poet, teacher, and critic. He is the author of two poetry collections A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999), and a nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005). Devaney is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College. In 2010 he lead the poetry tree tour “Under An Oak” in colloboration with the Haverford Arboretum.