Christopher Buckley’s nineteenth book of poetry, Varieties of Religious Experience (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), is forthcoming in 2013. He is also the author of White Shirt (University of Tampa Press, 2011), and Rolling the Bones (University of Tampa Press, 2010), which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. He is the co-editor of Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees (The Backwaters Press, 2011), and One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, a Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology (Lynx House Press, 2012). His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, POETRY, FIELD, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, APR, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Five Points, and New Letters among others. Buckley has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, two NEA grants, and a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing. He is the winner of four Pushcart Prizes.  

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