Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Green and Gray and The Guns and Flags Project, and co-author of 2A. His third collection, Metropole, is forthcoming from The University of California Press in 2011. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Poem with No Good Lines, (Hand Held Editions) and Hesiod (The Song Cave). He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches at San Quentin State Prison.