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David Trinidad's most recent book, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve, co-written with Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2003. His other books include Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000), Answer Song (High Risk Books, 1994), and Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press, 1991). He edited Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos, and with Maxine Scates, Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. In 2002 he moved from New York City to teach poetry at Columbia College in Chicago, where he also coordinates the MFA Poetry Program and co-edits the literary journal Court Green.