Carol Rubenstein has been an active participant in the New York poetry scene during the formative years of ethnopoetics and related projects. Rubenstein began a series of travels in the 1970s, that brought her first to Borneo, where for five years she collected and translated oral poetry from the Dayak people of that island. Her important book, The Honey Tree Song: Poems and Chants of the Sarawak Dayaks, was published by Ohio State University Press in 1985. After which, she settled in Ithaca, New York, where she continues today to write and work. Her project on Auschwitz began in 2004, for which she made three separate trips to Poland during 2004–2005, to see for herself (in so far as that was feasible). The project culminates in Vanished Number, the first publication from the many poems that resulted (“imagined but not imaginary”) and otherwise speaks for itself.