Gary J. Whitehead Non-Member Joined 2025

Gary J. Whitehead, American poet

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Visual Art

Gary J. Whitehead's fifth collection of poems, Seeing Double (Terrapin Books), was released last spring. His previous collections include Strange What Rises (Terrapin Books 2019), A Glossary of Chickens, (selected for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published by Princeton University Press 2013), Measuring Cubits while the Thunder Claps (David Robert Books 2008), and The Velocity of Dust (Salmon Poetry 2004). His writing awards include, among others, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship at Iowa State University, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review. His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, the Writer's Almanac, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, the Guardian's Poem of the Week, and the BBC's Words and Music program. His poems have appeared widely, most notably in The New Yorker.

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Norwood, NJ

Birthdate:

23 March

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