John Skoyles has published seven books of poems and five books of prose, including an autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry. He is the poetry editor of Ploughshares and a member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Books by John Skoyles:

Other poems on the web by John Skoyles:
Four poems
Five poems
"His Shirt"
"History"
Three poems
"Excuse for a Love Poem"

John Skoyles's Website.

John Skoyles on Twitter.

About Yes and No:

"John Skoyles's poems in Yes and No are lucid and rigorous; they are transparent and clearly and beautifully wrought; they are familiar and familial, welcoming and embracing; and they are at the same time, in the same breath, utterly mysterious and inviolable. Each of them is a gem of human intimacy and human awareness."
—Vijay Seshadri

"The poems in Yes and No enact a lively dialogue between self-acceptance and self-rejection. They embrace the past without regret or nostalgia while enhancing the present with imaginative alternatives, many of which are exemplified by people dear to the poet who managed not to define themselves too narrowly, to find a space for wishes that experience failed to fulfill. The result is a poetry that both honestly confronts disappointment while remaining free enough from the needy ego to make room for play."
—Carl Dennis