Draft:John Wall Barger (poet)
John Wall Barger (born 1969 in Staten Island, New York) is a Canadian-American poet, critic, and editor. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] Barger's poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review[2], The Hopkins Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rattle, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. In 2017, Barger won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize. He is a contract editor with Frontenac House.
Barger lives in Vermont and teaches in the writing program at Dartmouth College.
Publications
[edit]Essay Collection
- The Elephant of Silence (LSU Press, 2024)
Poetry Collections
- Smog Mother (Palimpsest Press, 2022)
- Resurrection Fail (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021): finalist for 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award, 2022 Raymond Souster Award, and 2020 Grayson Book Prize
- The Mean Game (Palimpsest, 2019): finalist for 2020 Phillip H. McMath Book Award
- The Book of Festus (Palimpsest, 2015): finalist for 2016 JM Abraham Poetry Award
- Hummingbird (Palimpsest, 2012): finalist for 2013 Raymond Souster Award
- Pain-proof Men (Palimpsest, 2009)
Chapbooks
- The Kindness Machine (Moonstone, 2022)
- Trying on the Walrus Costume in the Ed Sullivan Theater of the Mind (Bottlecap, 2022)
- Dying in Dharamsala (Alfred Gustav Press, 2018)
- The Vnfortunate Report & Tragicall Tidings of Leslie Barger (Thee Hellbox Press, 2016)
- Samovar / Dukkha (Baseline Press, 2016)
Awards, honors, and fellowships
[edit]Critical Works and Reviews
[edit]- The Elephant of Silence, Cleaver Magazine - 2021
- Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral (review), The Hopkins Review[3]
- The Music of the Zone, Poetry Northwest - 2021
- Single-Mindedness: on David Mikics’ Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Literary Matters - 2021
- Natalie Shapero’s Popular Longing, Kenyon Review - 2021
- Vijay Seshadri’s That was Now, This is Then, Plume Poetry - 2021
- In The Cold Theatre of the Poem, Literary Matters - 2020
- Sadiqa de Meijer’s The Outer Wards and Julie Joosten’s Nought, EVENT, 2020
References
[edit]- ^ Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia [1]
- ^ Kenyon Review
- ^ Barger, John (2021). "Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral (review)". The Hopkins Review. 14 (1). Project MUSE: 142–146.