Cal Bedient

Cal Bedient is a poet, critic, and editor who taught for many years in the English Department at UCLA, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He lives in Santa Monica, California. He is the author of five poetry collections, including Days of Unwilling, published by Saturnalia Books in 2008. He has also written several books of literary criticism on Robert Penn Warren, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and the Yeats brothers. He co-founded and co-edits Lana Turner: a Journal of Poetry & Opinion with David Lau.