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Ned Balbo
Ned Balbo's six books include The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), both published in 2019. The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems received the Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. His poem “The Wolves of Chernobyl” was second-prize co-winner in the 2022 Keats-Shelley competition sponsored by the UK’s Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. Awarded a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award in poetry, Balbo has taught in Iowa State University's MFA program in creative writing and environment, the West Chester University Poetry Conference, and elsewhere. New poems are out or forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, The Common, Plough Quarterly, Shenandoah, and Smartish Pace. He is married to poet and essayist Jane Satterfield. (For more, visit https://nedbalbo.com.)

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    Beloved Communities, Lasting Divisions: Poets on Country, Culture, and Kinship

    Ned Balbo / Issue 15.3
  • Poem

    At the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine

    Ned Balbo / Issue 15.3
  • “For When the Days Seem Absent Any Answers”: Poets of Skepticism and Faith

    Ned Balbo / Issue 15.2
  • Essay

    Fluent Phrases in a Silver Chain: On Finding Poetry in Song and Song in Poetry

    Ned Balbo / Issue 14.2
  • Essay

    “Shimmering with Fragile Grace”: Poets of Public and Personal History

    Ned Balbo / Issue 13.2
  • Essay

    “Words, We Ask the World of You”: Listening to Vanished Voices

    Ned Balbo / Issue 12.3
  • Essay

    Perennials on Fire: Ekphrastic Transformations in Adam Vines’ Out of Speech

    Ned Balbo / Issue 12.1
  • Essay

    The Now That Is Snow: A Review of Elizabeth Spires’ A Memory of the Future

    Ned Balbo / Issue 11.2
  • Poem

    Miraculous Spirals

    Ned Balbo / Issue 10.3

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