Ben Purkert is a poet with degrees from Harvard and New York University, where he served as a New York Times Fellow. Born in New Jersey, he lives in New York City.WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:The Past Is the Present Only Colder , poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2013–2014Three Poems, poetry, in Winter 2014I Shut My Eyes & Doors in Me Fly Open , an ipoem, in Fall 2014