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Region: U.S., Midwestern. Poems by This Poet. Sean Bishop earned his MFA from the University of Houston, where he was the managing editor of Gulf Coast. His first collection of poetry, The Night We’re…
Sean Bishop is Editor of the Wisconsin Poetry Series. His collection of poems, The Night We’re Not Sleeping In, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Edna Meudt Poetry Award, and appeared from Sarabande Books. He is the recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing’s ...
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Jan 30, 2015 · January 30, 2015. “Of all the voices you hear/one must be your father’s.”. In The Night We’re Not Sleeping In, winner of the 2013 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, the voice we must hear is Sean Bishop’s, as he shares a deeply personal, non-linear search to justify the sudden death of his father.
Feb 10, 2016 · Sean Bishop’s debut collection of poems is not, as the foreword states, for the faint of heart. These are poems of longing and loss, of wishing and wishes, of desire, and of the unequivocally true knowledge that wishes do not, and will not, come true.
Sean Bishop is the author of The Night We're Not Sleeping In (Sarabande, 2014), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the Council for Wisconsin Writers' Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Harvard Review, jubilat, Best New Poets, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He ...
Bishop’s poems arise from an obsessive imagination, and in addition to conjuring the absent figure of the father, they repeat a variety of images and motifs, including mythic or fabular characters (a wayward Adam, a Styx-like “boatlady Karen,” a “pull-tooth barber”), cosmic phenomena (black holes, dispersing galaxies, inelegant moons), and a rob...
Sean Bishop Poetry Feature – F (r)iction. Words By Sean Bishop, Art By Carly Lyn Heath. On Believing the Night Has an End When the Night Has No End The quarterback spits in his shoe and believes therefore he’ll win today.
