Terry Lucas

Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press, 2016), and In This Room (CW Books, 2016), in addition to two prize-winning chapbooks, Altar Call (2013) and If They Have Ears to Hear (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012). His poems, reviews, and essays have been published in scores of national journals, including Best New Poets 2012, Cider Press Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Great River Review, Green Mountains Review, Prime Number Magazine, among others. Most recently his poems can be found in Alaska Quarterly Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Star 82 Review. His essay, “The Crack in Everything: Metaphor and Love in the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker,” appears on the companion website to Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker (University of Michigan Press, 2018). His essay, "The Future of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century: Trajectories of Content and Form,” appearing in Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, is currently being translated into Russian. Formerly the co-executive editor of Trio House Press, Terry is now a free-lance poetry coach, and the current Poet Laureate of Marin County California (2019-2021). More about Terry and his work can be found at www.terrylucas.com and on his blog at www.thewideningspell.blogspot.com.