Friedlander, Benjamin: - Benjamin Friedlander is a poet, scholar, and editor. His poetry collections include A Knot Is Not a Tangle (Krupskaya, 2000), The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes (Subpress, 2007), Citizen Cain (Salt, 2011), and One Hundred Etudes (Edge, 2012). As a scholar he has published numerous articles and the book Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (University of Alabama, 2004). He is the editor of Larry Eigner's criticism (Roof, 1989), Charles Olson's Collected Prose (with Donald Allen; University of California, 1997), Robert Creeley's Selected Poems (California, 2008), and Nice: The Collected Poems of David Melnick (with Alison Fraser, Jeffrey Jullich, and Ron Silliman; Nightboat, 2023). Currently, he teaches American literature and poetics at the University of Maine, where he edits the scholarly journal Paideuma.