Stephen Massimilla's multigenre volume Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo, 2016) won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award, and others. Previous books include the collections The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (an SFASU Press Prize selection), Forty Floors from Yesterday (winner of the Bordighera/CUNY Prize), Later on Aiaia (winner of the Grolier Poetry Prize), and a critical study of myth in modern poetry. He has recent work in Agni, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Southern Review, Tampa Review, Verse Daily, and many other places. He teaches literature and writing at Columbia University and The New School.

Other poems by Stephen Massimilla in Verse Daily:
December 4, 2016:   "Celeriac" "Artery-twisted..."
October 14, 2014:   "Entering Vacant Stagehands" "Once she goes to sleep in my script, it is 2:00 A.M...."
September 20, 2010:   "Etymology" "Out of yellow brain, out..."
November 3, 2007:   "Love Like Rocks" " Respect the rocks, the way they hold..."
September 28, 2005:   "Thinks Herself Precious at a Price" " Rounding the Cape Horn, you looked..."
March 16, 2003:  "Two in Tropic Twilight" "If I once quickened among the whips..."

Books by Stephen Massimilla:

Other poems on the web by Stephen Massimilla:
Two poems
"City-Ship-States of Mind"
Two poems
Two poems
"Night Owl"
Three poems
"Specter of August"
Two poems
Three poems
Nine poems
"Blood Orange"
"Missed Signs"

Stephen Massimilla's Website.

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