“Willard’s poems articulate the genuine pitch of what it means to be fully alive.”

-Afaa Michael Weaver

Bruce Willard’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cortland Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, as well as on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Foundation’s American Life In Poetry, curated by Kwame Dawes, and The Slowdown curated by Major Jackson.

He has published 3 collections of poems: Holding Ground (2013), Violent Blues (2016) and In Light of Stars (2021) - all 3 published by Four Way Books (NYC). In Light of Stars received an Indie Book Award Prize for Poetry in 2022.

In addition to his work as a poet, Willard directs the Blue Raven Poetry Series in Rockland, Maine.

He lives in Maine and Colorado.

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