Dale Jacobson lives in East Grand Forks and teaches at UND. He has published nine collections of poetry, including four with Red Dragonfly Press: Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast (2008); A Walk by the River--a long poem (2004); Voices of the Communal Dark (2001); and Hunting My Home Town (1997). His other publications include the book length poems: Dakota Incantations (1973); Shouting at Midnight (1986); Factories and Cities (2003); and Exile in My Homeland (2006). Jacobson has also written many important essays on the poetry of Thomas McGrath.