Michael Hessel-Mial is a poet and scholar from the Midwest, with a PhD in comparative literature from Emory University. He is former webmaster of Internet Poetry, co-editor of MACRO: an anthology of image macros, and author of VITA NUOVA II, an ebook treatise on digital lyric. He is curently posting memes at Real Khazar Hours, a meme page exploring Jewish identity and internet culture. His epic poem in image macros, greatest poet alive, is appearing on the internet this fall.