Richard Garcia is the author of five books of poetry, including BOA titles Rancho Notorious (2001) and The Persistence of Objects (2006). His honors include a fellowship from the NEA, a Pushcart Prize, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Georgetown Review Poetry Prize, and the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. His poems appear widely in journals and anthologies. Garcia teaches creative writing in the Antioch University low-residency MFA program, and lives on James Island, South Carolina with his wife.

Other poems by Richard Garcia in Verse Daily:
October 1, 2005:   "New Orleans" " You're strolling hand in hand, occasional..."

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Other poems on the web by Richard Garcia:
"Matchbook"
Four poems
"The Duration"
"The City Is So Big"
Three poems
"Autumn"
Two poems
"A Poem by Andy Rooney"
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems