Rob Casper is the head of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress. He was the founding publisher of the literary magazine Jubilat, and previously worked at the Poetry Society of America and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Casper has also served as the poetry chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Poetry Committee, as a member of the Poetry Coalition, Lit Net and the National Writers Museum National Advisory Council, and as a judge-panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Poetry Out Loud competition and the Great American Read initiative.