Rich Murphy has taught Creative Writing for 20 years. His publication credits include a chapbook Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications. His poems have been published widely in such journals as Rolling Stone, Poetry Magazine (2002 featured poet), Grand Street (featured poet), New Letters, Negative Capability, Confrontation Magazine, Barrelhouse Review, West 47 (Ireland), Aesthetica Review (England), foam:e (Australia) New Delta Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, ForPoetry, and Astropoetica. His essay "Vanishing Artist: American Poet and Differend" was published in Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics and again in The International Journal of the Humanities, "McLuhan's Warning, Fry's Strategy, Emerson's Dream" was published in Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, "Howl's Muzzle" was published in Fringe Magazine. "Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Ted Kooser and John Ashbery" is under consideration.