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Caleb Curtiss is an educator, poet, and freelance copyeditor based in the midwest. His poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Ninth Letter, The Literary Review, New England Review, International Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Fugue, and The Southern Review. In 2013 he was a finalist for The Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. He has studied poetry at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the University of Illinois’ Creative Writing Program, and Vermont College of Fine Arts where he is an MFA candidate in poetry.
A little poetry playlist
- "These Lacustrine Cities" by John Ashbery
- "Song" & "The Satyr's Heart" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
- "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson
- "Leda, After the Swan" by Carl Phillips
- "The Gate" by Marie Howe
- "Homosexuality" by Henri Cole
- "Amber Doll" by Ladan Osman
- "Wreck" by Janine Joseph
- "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth
- "Dinosaurs in the Hood" by Danez Smith
- "Am Moor" by Lucie Brock-Broido
- "First Kiss" by Kim Addonizio
- "A Supermarket in California" by Allen Ginsberg
- "Vixen" by W.S. Merwin
- "Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" by Richard Siken