Richard Newman (poet)


Richard Newman is an American poet and former long-time editor of River Styx. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections--All the Wasted Beauty of the World, Domestic Fugues, and Borrowed Towns --and one novel, Graveyard of the Gods.

Biography

Born in Illinois, raised in southern Indiana, a longtime resident of St. Louis, and now living in Japan and Vietnam, Newman is the author of the poetry collections All the Wasted Beauty of the World, Domestic Fugues, and Borrowed Towns ; the novel Graveyard of the Gods ; and four poetry chapbooks: 24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times, Monster Gallery: 19 Terrifying and Amazing Monster Sonnets!, Tastes Like Chicken and Other Meditations, and Greatest Hits. He is also an acclaimed songwriter.
His work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2006 , Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, The Ledge, New Letters,, Poetry Daily, The Sun, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and many other periodicals and anthologies.
Newman earned his MFA at the Brief-Residency Writing Program at Spalding University. He has taught at Washington University and UMSL Honors College, as well as College of Marshall Islands. He served as editor of River Styx from 1994 to 2016. He is a member of , a junk-folk band based in St. Louis, Missouri. The band is on temporary hiatus but will return one day.

Excerpt from ''Borrowed Towns''

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