John W. Evans is the author of The Fight Journal (Rattle, 2023), Should I Still Wish: A Memoir (Nebraska, 2017), Young Widower: A Memoir (Nebraska, 2014), and The Consolations: Poems (Trio House, 2014). His books have won prizes including the Rattle Chapbook Prize, the Peace Corps Writers Book Prize, a ForeWord Reviews Book Prize, the River Teeth Book Prize, the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and the Trio Award. Should I Still Wish is published in the American Lives Series. His poetry and nonfiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, Poets & Writers, Slate, Boston Review, ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, The Flyfish Journal, Pangyrus, and Best American Essays. Born in Kansas, he lives with his three young songs in the Bay Area and teaches at Stanford University, where he is the Phyllis Draper Lecturer in Nonfiction, and has been recognized as a "favorite professor" by the women's basketball, water polo, soccer and volleyball teams, as well as the Knight Fellows and the DCI Fellows.

Other poems by John W. Evans in Verse Daily:
June 9, 2008:   "Cine S-a Fript Cu Ciorba, Suflã şi-n Iaurt" "We reverse the spell in inches..."

Books by John W. Evans:

Other poems on the web by John W. Evans:
Two poems
"Fireline"
Two poems
Seven poems
"Eclogue"
"Lakefill"
Eighteen poems
"Enkidu: Three Rondeau"
"Sandwich Notch Road, Two Days Before Christmas"

John W. Evans's Website.