T. R. Hummer is the author of seven books of poetry, including, most recently, Useless Virtues (2001) and Walt Whitman in Hell (1996), both from Louisiana State University Press. "For Dancers Only: Suite for Jimmie Lunceford, 1902-1947" is from The Infinity Sessions, a work-in-progress. Hummer has edited The Kenyon Review and New England Review and is currently editor of The Georgia Review. He lives in Athens, Georgia.