Lance Larsen

Lance Larsen is an American poet. He currently serves as poet laureate of Utah. In 2007 he received the Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been described as "one of those writers who clings to a quaintly Romantic notion that mortality and love and soul are the abiding themes of life and art."[1][2]

Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, Genius Loci, was published by University of Tampa Press in 2013. His earlier collections include Backyard Alchemy (2009), In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005), and Erasable Walls (1998). He holds a PhD from the University of Houston. His work appears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays.

Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writing at BYU.

He is married to mixed-media artist Jacqui Larsen and has four children: Derek, Brooke, Melody, and Tessa.

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  1. ↑ "Lance Larsen: In All Their Animal Brilliance" by Mike White, VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW. Accessed Oct 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Utah’s Poet Laureate – Lance Larsen" accessed Oct 18, 2013.
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