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Atsuro Riley is an American writer. Riley is the author of the poetry collections ''Heard-Hoard'' (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and ''Romey's Order'' (University of Chicago Press, 2010). In 2023, Riley was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ''Heard-Hoard'' was the winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Poetry Award; it was named a 'Best Book of 2021' by ''The Boston Globe'' and a 'Top 10 Book of 2021' by ''Bookworm''. ''Romey's Order'' received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, ''The Believer'' Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. Riley's work has been awarded the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Wood Prize from ''Poetry'' magazine, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Poems appear in ''
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'' (UK), '' Poetry International''. Riley's poetry has been anthologized in ''The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling, ed. Robert Pinsky '' (W.W. Norton), ''The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine'', ''Poems of the American South'' (Everyman's Library-Knopf),''The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry'' (Oxford University Press), ''The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets'' (McSweeney's), ''Poems From Far and Wide'' (McSweeney's), ''Vinegar and Char'' (University of Georgia Press), ''Gracious'' (Texas Tech University Press), ''Home: 100 Poems'' (Yale University Press). Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.


Awards

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Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated dis ...
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* Arts and Letters Award in Literature,
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* Alice Fay di Castagnola Award,
Poetry Society of America Poetry (from the Greek word '' poiesis'', "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any partic ...
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PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by ...
(finalist),
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Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...
* Kate Tufts Discovery Award * The Believer Poetry Award * Lannan Literary Fellowship,
Lannan Foundation The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...
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Witter Bynner Fellowship Witter Bynner Fellowships are administered by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, an organization that provides grant support for poetry programs through nonprofit organizations. Fellows are chosen by ...
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Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
* J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, ''
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National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...
Literature Fellowship


Works

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Anthologies & Critical Volumes

*''The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry'' (Oxford University Press) *''The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine'' (University of Chicago Press) *''The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling— ed. Robert Pinsky '' (W.W. Norton) *''Poems of the American South'' (Everyman's Library-Knopf) *''The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets'' (McSweeney's) *''Poems From Far and Wide'' (McSweeney's) *''Vinegar and Char'' (University of Georgia Press) *''Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry— by Peter Campion'' (University of Chicago Press) *''The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time— ed. Charles Altieri & Nicholas Nace'' (Northwestern University Press) *''Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century South— ed. John Poch'' (Texas Tech University Press) *''Home: 100 Poems— ed. Christian Wiman'' (Yale University Press)


Reviews/Interviews

''HEARD-HOARD'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ''ROMEY'S ORDER'' * * * * * * * *


References


External links


author's website—www.atsuroriley.org Poetry International (Rotterdam) critical commentary + poems Flavorwire: 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade So FarThe Whiting Foundation Alice Fay di Castagnola Award: Poetry Society of America
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