Richard Siken’s first poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review, and Forklift, Ohio, as well as in the anthologiesThe Best American Poetry 2000 and Legitimate Dangers. He is a […]
(i) Two rabbits were chased by a fox, of all the crazy shit in the world, and the fox kept up the chase, circling the world until the world caught up with them in some broken-down downtown metropolis. Inside the warren, the rabbits think fast. Pip touches the only other rabbit listening. […]
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. […]
1 The eye stretches to the horizon and then must continue up. […]
Richard Siken talks about the difference between reading a poem, hearing a poem, and voicing a poem out loud.
Richard Siken talks about the genesis of his poem “War of the Foxes.”