Upon Witnessing My Mother Impossibly Blossom above My Father’s Deathbed

Kevin Stein has published eleven books of poetry, criticism, and anthology, including the recent collection Wrestling Li Po for the Remote (Fifth Star Press, 2013) and the essays Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (U of Michigan, 2010). Poet Laureate of Illinois, Stein was awarded in 2016 The Order of Lincoln, the state's highest honor for professional achievement and service. He teaches at Bradley University.