Craig Blais
Craig Blais (born 1978 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
Life
Blais's first book About Crows won the 2013 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry judged by Terrance Hayes and published by the University of Wisconsin Press.[1] About Crows was awarded Gold Medal in the category of poetry in the 2014 Florida Book Awards competition.[2] His second book Moon News was selected by former Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins as finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, to be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2021.[3]
Blais is a graduate of Holyoke Community College and University of San Francisco. He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Wichita State University[4] and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University.[5]
His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Antioch Review, Barrow Street (magazine),[6] Hayden's Ferry Review, Los Angeles Review,[7] New Welsh Review,[8] The Southern Review, and other places. He is Associate Professor of English at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts.[9]
Works
About Crows (2013)
Moon News (2021)
References
- Felix Pollak Prize Past Winners
- Florida Book Awards
- University of Arkansas News
- F5 Magazine Archived 2014-02-24 at Archive.today
- "FSU Graduate News". Archived from the original on 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
- Barrow Street
- Los Angeles Review
- New Welsh Review
- http://floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu/juries.html#p
External links
- Craig Blais on Poetry Daily, June 23, 2013
- University of Wisconsin Press Author Page
- "Fishbone Novena", October 2013, New Orleans Review
- Poem: "Sonnet (as an excuse to publish a story from when I was ten)"
- Poem: "Oh Lovely Rock (A Sonnet with a Phone Number in It)"
- Craig Blais's personal website
- University of Arkansas Press Author Page