Robert Bensen is a Piltdown Review Featured Poet for October. His poetry and prose have been published in The Paris Review, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Native Realities, Jamaica Journal, AGNI, Akwe:kon, Poetry Wales, The Thomas Hardy Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. Among his books of poetry are In the Dream Museum, Scriptures of Venus, Day Labor, Two Dancers, and Orenoque, Wetumka and Other Poems. His poetry has been recognized with an NEA fellowship, the Robert Penn Warren Award, and other awards. He has published numerous essays on Caribbean and Native American literature, and edited anthologies of those literatures, most recently Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education. His study American Indian and Aboriginal Canadian Childhood Studies was commissioned by Oxford University Press online. He is Emeritus Professor of English and former Director of Writing at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY (1978-2017). He now teaches at the State University of New York—Oneonta.