Richard Siken

Richard Siken
Occupation	poet
Nationality	American

Richard Siken 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. His second book of poems, War of the Foxes, was released from Copper Canyon Press in 2015.

Life and work

Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for "Gay Men's Poetry" in 2005,^[1] and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. The 1991 death of his boyfriend influenced his writing of the book.^[2]

Siken's most recent book, War of the Foxes,^[3] was published in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press and was a Lannan Literary Selection.^[4]

Siken currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Awards

Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award.

Siken is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.^[5]

Bibliography

• Crush (Yale University Press, 2005)
• War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015)

References

1. "Previous Lammy Award Winners". Lambda Literary Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
2. Schuman, Joan (2006-04-13). "Poetry Personas: Three well-known writers reflect on new, contemporary work". Tucson Weekly.
3. https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={15A55214-5F48-4E0E-81D8-F256D3FFC4CA}
4. http://www.lannan.org/programs/literary/
5. "Richard Siken".

External links

• Profile of Richard Siken from Poetry magazine