JOHN FOY Poetry Reading

John Foy’s third book, No One Leaves the World Unhurt, won the 2020 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. It was selected by J. Allyn Rosser and will be published this spring by Autumn House Press. His second book, Night Vision, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize (St. Augustine’s Press, 2016) and was also a finalist for the 2018 Poets’ Prize. His first book is Techne’s Clearinghouse. Foy’s work has been included in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, The Best of the Raintown Review, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. He has published widely in journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Village Voice, The Yale Review, Parnassus, The Hopkins Review, American Arts Quarterly, Alabama Literary Review, and The Dark Horse (in Scotland), among many others. His poems have also appeared online in Literary Matters, Poetry Daily, American Life in Poetry, Ducts, Kin, The Nervous Breakdown, Big City Lit, and Angle, an online literary journal in the UK. His essays and reviews have run in Parnassus, The New Criterion, Contemporary Poetry Review, The Dark Horse, and other publications, and he has been a guest blogger for Best American Poetry. He lives and works in New York, where he co-curates a reading series.