William Pratt is Professor of English Emeritus at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and author or editor of twenty books in the field of modern literature, including The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature; The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective; Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry; and Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism. From 1991-2005 he served as Secretary of the Ezra Pound International Conference, and in 2015-16 he was President of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, founded in 1849, the oldest literary club in the USA.