I started showing up at the online Wallson Glass workshops during the pandemic and Geoffrey’s ecstatic and quirky brilliance made writing possible again (and always surprising). He’s an outrageously generous teacher who helps us all get out of our own way. “Freedom is my only project,” he’s said of his own beautiful and unpredictable poems, and freedom is what he gives us, too. (In the acknowledgements of my most recent book I credit Geoffrey (among other poet-friends) for “literary conversations that transcend the page and are essential to these pages.”)