Trane DeVore grew up in the the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived for most of his adult life before moving to Japan in 2005 to teach at Osaka University. He has published two books of poetry—series/mnemonic (Avec Books, 1999) and Dust Habit (Avec Books, 2005)—and his work has appeared in numerous publications, most recently in the Tokyo Poetry Journal. When he's not busy keeping up with academic work or listening to records, he likes to write and take photographs. [Poetry]