Richard Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and an editor at Spork Press. In her profile of Siken, Nell Casey wrote, "he effectively juxtaposes holy wishes with mundane images—making them both seem beautiful by some strange lyrical alchemy." Richard Siken is an American poet and editor. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Crush, which won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. Siken is also an editor of the literary magazine Spork.
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Richard Siken (born February 15, 1967) is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of the collection Crush ( Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. [1] His second book of poems, War of the Foxes, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015. Early life and education BIO. Richard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things. Richard Siken is a poet, a painter, and a filmmaker. His books include "Crush," selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, and the forthcoming "I Do Know Some Things." Sidewalk By Richard Siken I crawled to the front door and swung it open so the ambulance could find me. It seemed like a strange thing to do, since I hadn't called for an ambulance, so I crawled to the end of the sidewalk and sat there, which still didn't make sense.
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Richard Siken is the author of I Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Blue Jupiters (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015); and Crush (Yale University Press, 2006), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2004. He lives in Tucson. Related Poets poems Texts by Texts about Related Poets 5 Poems 22 Quotes 11 Followers 0 Following Rating: ★ 3 Richard Siken Poems 1. Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out Every morning the maple leaves. Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other. Every morning the same big and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out. Read Poem 2. Richard Siken 1 A man saw a bird and found him beautiful. The bird had a song inside him, and feathers. Sometimes the man felt like the bird and sometimes the man felt like a stone—solid, inevitable—but mostly he felt like a bird, or that there was a bird inside him, or that something inside him was like a bird fluttering. Richard Siken is the author of I Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Blue Jupiters (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015); and Crush (Yale University Press, 2006), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2004.He lives in Tucson.
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Richard Siken is the author of I Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Blue Jupiters (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015); and Crush (Yale University Press, 2006), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2004. He lives in Tucson. About Richard Siken Themes Audio Death Richard Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and an editor at Spork Press. In her profile of Siken, Nell Casey wrote, "he effectively juxtaposes holy wishes with mundane images—making them both seem beautiful by some strange lyrical alchemy." His poems unwind on the page effortlessly, barely pausing for.
Richard Siken was educated at the University of Arizona and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he is a full-time social worker caring for developmentally disabled adults. A forced march deeper into the woods and, bread in hand—keep your hands where I can see 'em—a trail of breadcrumbs. Sleeping, waking, crying, the moon rising, the crumbs gone. The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time.
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Richard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things (forthcoming, Copper Canyon Press, 2024). Richard Siken (Poetry Foundation) is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and the founder and former editor at Spork Press. In her profile of Siken, Nell Casey wrote, 'He effectively juxtaposes holy wishes with mundane images - making them both seem beautiful by some strange lyrical alchemy.'
