The Series is the longest-running poetry prize in America, and is open to any American under age 40 who has not yet published a book of poetry. Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets has published first collections of works by such poets as Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, Auden, Stanley Kunitz, James Merrill and James Dickey. Siken is a recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts grant, a Pushcart Prize, and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005. D.Wright chose Crush in 2003 as a finalist in the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. He is founder of the literary magazine spork, and his poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review, and Chelsea. He received an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson. What holds is sheer art, despite the apparent abandon.” And the triumph of Crush it that it writes and blazes while at the same time holding the reader utterly: ‘sustaining interest’ seems far too mild a term for this effect. The risk of obsessive material is that it may get boring, repetitious, predictable, shrill. In her Foreword, Glück writes: “If panic is his ground note, Siken’s obsessive focus is a tyrant, the body. In this provocative collection, Richard Siken offers the reader poems driven by obsession and brimming with violent eroticism. This is Glück’s second selection in her tenure as the first female poet to become judge of the competition. The winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Richard Siken’s Crush, chosen by competition judge and past poet laureate Louise Glück.
Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review Winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition Best of all are the poems where Siken’s passion and eloquence collide and fuse."
"His territory is the passionate apex of an affair, where ripeness first tips toward rot. Question and answer session: Wed., Nov.Our Fall 2007 Fred Case & Lola Austin Case Writer-In-Residence was Richard Siken, who visited Nov.
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