Atsuro Riley

Atsuro Riley is an American writer.^[1]

Riley is the author of the poetry collections Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Romey's Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

He is a recipient of the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

His work has appeared in A Public Space, Poetry (magazine), The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, Free Verse Journal, Riddle Fence (Canada), Southern Cultures, The Poetry Review (UK), Poetry International.^[2]

His 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,^[3] 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).

Awards[]

• Whiting Award^[4]
• Kate Tufts Discovery Award
• The Believer Poetry Award
• Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lannan Foundation^[5]
• Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress
• Pushcart Prize
• J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, Poetry
• National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
• , Poetry Society of America

Works[]

• Heard-Hoard . University of Chicago Press. 2021.
• Romey's Order . University of Chicago Press. 2010.

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[]

HEARD-HOARD

• Jesse Nathan (September 2021). "Review + Interview: McSweeney's".

ROMEY'S ORDER

• Peter Campion (May 2010). "Rhetoric, Music, America: POETRY magazine review". POETRY.
• The Believer editors (May 2011). "The Believer Poetry Award citation". The Believer.
• Dominic Luxford (October 2010). "The Believer Review". The Believer.
• Dana Jennings (October 18, 2010). "The Sting of Salt Air, Old Loves and Honey Bees". The New York Times.
• Alex Lemon (December 26, 2010). "Book reviews: Romey's Order, by Atsuro Riley, and Ideal Cities, by Erika Meitner". The Dallas Morning News.
• Jon Thompson (Winter 2010–2011). "Going Home". Free Verse.
• Jim Schley (August 15, 2010). "Debut Dazzles with Originality". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

References[]

External links[]

• AUTHOR'S WEBSITE—www.atsuroriley.org—
• at The Shipman Agency website—www.theshipmanagency.com/atsuro-riley—
• Author info, links to reviews, etc. —www.pw.org/content/atsuro_riley—
• Podcast: "About a Boy: The Shape Things Take to Atsuro Riley"—— with critical commentary by Dominic Luxford
• Poetry International (Rotterdam) critical commentary + poems
• Flavorwire: 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade So Far
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Alice Fay di Castagnola Award: Poetry Society of America