Tim Kreiner is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Yale University. He is completing a book of literary history titled The Long Downturn and Its Discontents: Poetry, Culture Wars, and the New Left. His writing on poetry and politics has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics (Routledge, 2018), Contemporary Literature, Post-45, Los Angeles Review of Books, Viewpoint Magazine, and Lana Turner.