Jack Hannan is a poet and novelist. In 2011, the book Some frames was short-listed for the A.M. Klein Prize for poetry. His first novel was published in 2016, The Poet is a Radio, and it is with this book that he proposes to work with students, discussing the themes of oral and printed literature, polished and raw literature, free literature, buskers, and bestselling, discounted, literature on Amazon, and then the place of books, and bookstores, in society, in the marketplace. He works with readings from short chapters, leading to discussion.