The Missouri Review Online: “C4: male, 39 years old”

Narrative: “Baucis and Philemon”

New England Review: “Birthday Poem,” “Saturday at Reynolds Work Release,” “When It Is Over, It Will Be Over”

The New Republic: “Murano”

Ninth Letter: “Confessional,” “Freedom,” “Go West,” “Marriage,” “Never,” “The New Woman,” “You’re”

Poetry: “At the Fishhouses,” “Vessels”

Poetry Northwest: “Rhetoric”

South Dakota Review: “Olive Oatman in Texas”

Water~Stone: “Bubbles”

Willow Springs: “W.C. Fields Takes a Walk”

“Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner” was published on the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem Flow” for its Poem-A-Day project.

“Birthday Poem” was reprinted in Best American Poetry 2013, edited by Denise Duhamel.

“W.C. Fields Takes a Walk” was reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses.

“Monticello Vase” appeared in the anthology Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson, edited by Lisa Russ Spaar, University of Virginia Press.

“Vessels” was reprinted on the Poetry Daily website.

Thanks to the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, the University of North Texas for its Rilke Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, and the University of Utah for support. Thanks to Lisa Bickmore, Susan Brown, Kim Johnson, Natasha Sajé, Susan Sample, Melanie Rae Thon, and Jennifer Tonge. A final, special thanks to the editors who made these poems better, especially Jonathan Farmer, Tonaya Craft, and Michael Wiegers, and all the fine people at Copper Canyon Press.

Finally, my deepest gratitude goes out to Andrea Modica for use of her images, previously published in Human Being (Nazraeli Press, 2001).

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Lannan Literary Selections

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LANNAN LITERARY SELECTIONS 2016

Josh Bell, Alamo Theory

Maurice Manning, One Man’s Dark

Paisley Rekdal, Imaginary Vessels

Brenda Shaughnessy, So Much Synth

Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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