Wally Swist

BIO

Wally Swist's most recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Appalachia, The Light in Ordinary Things (Fearless Books), and Puckerbrush Review. He has a scholarly monograph forthcoming from The Edwin Mellen Press, entitled High-pressure Weather and Country Air: The Friendship of Robert Frost and Robert Francis. His latest volume of poetry, Mount Toby Poems, was issued by Timberline Press, of Fulton, Missouri, this year (2009) in a letterpress limited edition. It was the last volume to be issued by the press in their prestigious thirty-three year publishing history.

A short biographical documentary film, In Praise of the Earth: The Poetry of Wally Swist, was released by WildArts in 2008 and has been screened at a number of venues, including the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, Massachusetts and the University of Connecticut Bookstore. More information is available regarding the film on the Wilda Films website.

Swist is also a recipient of two Artist Fellowships in Poetry from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and three year-long writing residencies at Fort Juniper, the Robert Francis Homestead, in Cushman, Massachusetts.

You may contact the poet at wswist@yahoo.com. His website is www.wallyswist.com.

To read a poem, click on its title below.

Double Rainbow

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