Thylias Moss, a professor at the University of Michigan, is the mother of Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems, a literary theory born in October 2004 at the Quality 16 cinema in Ann Arbor. She is the winner of Poetry's 2006 Frederick Bock Prize for "The Subculture of Wrongfully Accused," a poam also part of her new collection of poams (products of acts of making), Tokyo Butter, her first book entirely conceived and executed under the influence of a Limited Fork.