Philip Hoy

[2] In 1998, Hoy co-founded Between The Lines, a small press focusing on publishing book-length interviews with contemporary poets, along with Peter Dale and Ian Hamilton.

[5] In 2002, Hoy established The Waywiser Press, a publishing platform that continues to produce new works to date.

[6] The press has published renowned poets including Richard Wilbur, Mark Strand, and Anthony Hecht, extending beyond contemporary poetry to novels, short stories, memoirs, letters, aphorisms, and literary history.

[7] Hoy introduced the annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2005, offering the winning poet publication of their collection and a $3,000 award.

[9] The essay is a 96-page meditation on a nine-second sequence of black and white film capturing French artist Edgar Degas walking along a Parisian boulevard.