Terence Winch has published five earlier books of poems—Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor (Hanging Loose Press, 2011), Boy Drinkers (Hanging Loose, 2007), The Drift of Things (The Figures, 2001), Irish Musicians/American Friends (Coffee House Press, 1986), which won an American Book Award, and The Great Indoors (Story Line Press, 1995), which won the Columbia Book Award. That Special Place: New World Irish Stories (Hanging Loose, 2004) is a collection of non-fiction pieces on his experiences playing traditional Irish music. He has also published a book of short stories called Contenders (Story Line, 1989) and numerous chapbooks. His work has appeared in more than 30 anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006), Poetry 180 (2003), Best American Poetry (1997, 2003, 2007; 2010), and in such publications as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Conduit, Magma (UK), The New Republic, Shiny, Verse, Smartish Pace, et al. He was the subject of a profile on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and has been featured many times on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” radio program. He has received an NEA Fellowship in poetry, as well as grants from the DC Commission on the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Fund for Poetry. He is also the winner of a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing.

Other poems by Terence Winch in Verse Daily:
August 16, 2012:   "Landscape with Rain and Glass" "The stakes were so much higher...."
August 6, 2012:   "The Platitudes" "I am perfect and you are perfect..."

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Other poems on the web by Terence Winch:
Four poems
"Admonition"
Three poems
"Three Addresses"
Three poems
"Social Security"
Two poems
Six poems
Three poems
Six poems
Two poems
"Witch"
Three poems

Terence Winch's Website.

Terence Winch According to Wikipedia.

About Lit from Below:

"In these delightful foreshortened sonnets, Terence Winch makes poems that leak with lucent dreams, dissolving midsentence into reversals, somersaults, and whimsy: counterfactuals that are as solid as the band that is your mind playing favorite songs in an old movie. “The crowd exploded. The room cheered.” And now back to the poems, already in progress ..."
—Charles Bernstein