Adam Kirsch is a poet and literary critic. Currently, he is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, an editor of the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Review section, and poetry editor of The New Criterion.Kirsch's poems have appeared in Paris Review, Partisan Review, the Formalist, Harvard Review, and the New Criterion. His first book, the collection "The Thousand Wells," was published in 2002. He has published four collections of poetry, six books on literary criticism, and three biographies.