Zoland Poetry Feature:    
Rusty Morrison

Rusty Morrison's newest collection, After Urgency, won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize and is forthcoming in 2012. You can read an excerpt from the collection by clicking on the link below. Rusty also has a new chapbook, Book of the Given, available from Noemi press, and is co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com). You can read an interview with her at The Center for Literary Publishing here.

Rusty Morrison is a celebrated and accomplished poet. Her collection the true keeps calm biding its story (Ahsahta, 2007) won the Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, and the DiCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Whethering (Center for Literary Publishing, 2004) won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has received the Bogin, Hemley, Winner, and DiCastagnola Memorial Awards from The Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in periodicals including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Lana Turner, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and VOLT. Her essays and long reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Evening Will Come, Poetry Flash, Verse, and in the anthologies One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande, 2010) and  Beauty is a Verb (Cinco Punto, 2011).

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