Peter Jay Shippy is the author of Thieves’ Latin (Univ. of Iowa Press). He has new work forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, McSweeeney’s Web and Verse, among others. His abecedarian suite Alphaville is online at 42opus, eratio, Tarpaulin Sky and Word for / Word. He teaches at Emerson College.