The Poet and the Poem
2020-21 Series
Featured Ned Balbo
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Ned Balbo's newest books are The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), both published in 2019. His previous books are Upcycling Paumanok, Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize), Galileo's Banquet (Towson University Prize), and The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems(Poets' Prize and the Donald Justice Prize). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (for translation) and the Maryland Arts Council. Recent poems appear in American Journal of Poetry, Christian Century, The Common, Ecotone, Gingko Prize 2019 Ecopoetry Anthology, and more. Balbo taught most recently in Iowa State's MFA program in creative writing and environment and at the West Chester University Poetry Conference. He is also a songwriter. A native of Suffolk County, New York, he lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet and essayist Jane Satterfield. (For more, visit nedbalbo.com and nedsdemos.bandcamp.com/releases.)