Howard Altmann is a New York based poet whose work has appeared in many journals including, most recently, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. His second book of poems, In This House (Turtle Point Press) was published in April 2010. John Ashbery said of this In This House, "Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. If he seldom finds reassuring answers, he finds something better: 'When all that consoled consoles no longer / loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.' These poems are as essential as a glass of water." Altmann’s other works include the book of poems, Who Collects the Days (2005) and the play, The Johnsons & the Thompsons (Playscripts 2008). A native of Montreal, he has earned degrees from McGill and Stanford. He lives in New York City.