MERVYN TAYLOR, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn, New York, resident, has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School, and in the New York City public school system. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), Country of Warm Snow (2020) – a Poetry Book Society Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit Prize – and his latest, The Last Train: Poems (Broadstone Books). A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems (Broadstone Books), was published in 2020. Currently, Taylor serves as co-editor on the advisory board of Slapering Hol Press in New York’s Hudson Valley.