Anders Carlson-Wee ~ Poetry.LA Interview

ANDERS CARLSON-WEE is the author of the poetry collections "Disease of Kings" (W.W. Norton, 2023) and "The Low Passions" (W.W. Norton, 2020)-a New York Public Library Book Group Selection-and the chapbook, "Dynamite" (Bull City Press, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Competition. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, and The Southern Review, among other publications. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Camargo Foundation, Bread Loaf, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. The winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize, his work has been reviewed and discussed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Kenyon Review, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Entropy Magazine, West Branch, The Sewanee Review, and on Slate’s podcast Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter, among many other places. He holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University.
Interview host JEREMY RA was the recipient of the 2022 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize. His debut chapbook, "Another Way of Loving Death," was published by Moon Tide Press in 2023.

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Just came across this poet, an eccentric mind and life, what an interesting story and consonance of thought. Really beautiful.