Rennie McQuilkinRennie McQuilkin was Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 2015 through 2018, when he retired because of illness. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, Crazyhorse, an elsewhere. This is his seventeenth poetry collection. He has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Ruth Fox Award of the New England Poetry Club, the Swallows Tale Poetry Award, and the Texas Review Chapbook Prize. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book; in 2010 his volume of new and selected poems, The Weathering, was awarded the Center's annual poetry prize under the aegis of the Library of Congress; and in 2018, North of Eden received the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Poetry. For nine years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he co-founded at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut. With his wife, the artist Sarah McQuilkin, he lives in Bloomfield, CT. Read More Read Less