Strange What Rises, by Gary J. Whitehead
Congratulations to Gary for the feature of his poem, Horace, I Dream of Watches, on Verse Daily.
Congratulations to Gary on the feature of his poem, Fly in Our Salad, on former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's podcast, The Slowdown.
Congratulations to Gary on the feature of his poem, Driving All Night, on The Writer's Almanac.
Praise for Strange What Rises
It is such a pleasure to sit with Gary J. Whitehead’s latest book, Strange What Rises, as these meditations continually search for the profound with deep attentiveness, whether in moments of stillness or in moments of tumult. I was hooked from the very first poem, “Wild Columbine.” Here is a keen eye for the lyric sweep of a poem braided with a narrative propulsion. Whitehead never averts his gaze, whether in service to beauty or in witness to the painful. He says, “Let me raise the storms,” and he does just that, with "an avian choir, / days with repeating phrases, // whole summers of arias.”
—Brian Turner, Phantom Noise
Congratulations to Gary on the feature of his poem, Fly in Our Salad, on former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's podcast, The Slowdown.
Congratulations to Gary on the feature of his poem, Driving All Night, on The Writer's Almanac.
Praise for Strange What Rises
It is such a pleasure to sit with Gary J. Whitehead’s latest book, Strange What Rises, as these meditations continually search for the profound with deep attentiveness, whether in moments of stillness or in moments of tumult. I was hooked from the very first poem, “Wild Columbine.” Here is a keen eye for the lyric sweep of a poem braided with a narrative propulsion. Whitehead never averts his gaze, whether in service to beauty or in witness to the painful. He says, “Let me raise the storms,” and he does just that, with "an avian choir, / days with repeating phrases, // whole summers of arias.”
—Brian Turner, Phantom Noise
Gary J. Whitehead is the author of three previous books of poetry, most recently A Glossary of Chickens, which was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published in 2013 by Princeton University Press. He has been the recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship, and the Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award. A featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the Princeton Poetry Festival, and the West Caldwell Poetry Festival, he teaches English at Tenafly High School in New Jersey. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The North American Review, and elsewhere. His work has also been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Guardian’s Poem of the Week. He recently moved from the Hudson valley of New York to New Jersey.
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