Recently appointed as Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Chapson reveals himself to be a deeply cultured sensualist who communes effortlessly between a pan-Hellenic past and a more offbeat latter-day Milwaukee. Attuned to the ancient, but alert to the present, he, like Cavafy, is a poet of time and desire.
Jim Chapson teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He the author of several book including Daphnis and Ratboy, Scholia, and Plotinus Blushed.
