Atsuro Riley

Atsuro Riley is an American writer.^[1]

Riley is the author of Romey's Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010), a collection of poems.

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

His work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, Free Verse, Riddle Fence (Canada).^[2]

His work has been anthologized in: The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of POETRY Magazine^[3]

Poems of the American South (Everyman's Library-Knopf, 2014)

The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets (McSweeney's, 2007)

Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (University of South Carolina Press, 2015)

Riley grew up in South Carolina.^[4]

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Awards

Whiting Writers' Award^[6]
Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lannan Foundation^[7]
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
The Believer Poetry Award
Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress
Pushcart Prize
J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, Poetry
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship

Works

Romey's Order. University of Chicago Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-226-71944-3.
"Thicket", Poetry, September 2013
"Striplings", Poetry, December 2012
"Hutch", Poetry, December 2007
"Clary", Poetry, September 2008
"Sunder", Poetry, April 2011
"Craw", Poetry, April 2011
"Root", The New Republic, March 1, 2012

Reviews

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

Flavorwire: 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade So Far