Gary J. Whitehead

Gary J. Whitehead's fifth collection of poems, Seeing Double, will be published by Terrapin Books in May. His previous books include Strange What Rises (Terrapin Books 2019), A Glossary of Chickens (Princeton University Press 2013), Measuring Cubits while the Thunder Claps (David Robert Books 2008) and The Velocity of Dust (Salmon Poetry 2004). He has also authored three chapbooks of poetry, two of which were winners of national competitions. His writing awards include, among others, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship at Iowa State University, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review. His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, the Writer's Almanac, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, the SlowDown podcast, the Guardian's Poem of the Week, and the BBC's Words and Music program. He has performed his poems at The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the Princeton Poetry Festival, and the New York City Poetry Festival.