Bruce Willard

Bruce Willard: Bruce Willard’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner as well as on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Foundation’s American Life In Poetry, curated by Kwame Dawes, and The Slowdown curated by Major Jackson. He has published 3 collections of poems: Holding Ground (2013), Violent Blues (2016) and In Light of Stars (2021)—all 3 published by Four Way Books (NYC). His 4th, As Land Between Water, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in Spring 2027. In addition to his work as a poet, Willard directs the Blue Raven Poetry Series in Rockland, Maine. He lives in Maine. More information can be found on his website, https://www.brucewillard.com/.