Richard Wollman is the author of Changeable Gods (winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize from Slate Roof Press), Evidence of Things Seen (Sheep Meadow Press), and A Cemetery Affair (Finishing Line Press). An Art of Need, his current manuscript, is about outsider artists and includes ekphrastic poems accompanied by images of the poet's sculptures. His awards include the Gulf Coast Prize for Poetry, the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, and the Firman Houghton Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems appear in New England Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, American Journal of Poetry, Notre Dame Review, and Poet Lore. He is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Simmons University in Boston and lives in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Other poems by Richard Wollman in Verse Daily:
August 20, 2006:   "Mythology" " When Orion moves in December..."

Books by Richard Wollman:

Other poems on the web by Richard Wollman:
"The Instrumentarium of Harry Partch"

Richard Wollman's Website.

About Changeable Gods:

"In this remarkable book, Wollman uses clear and lyrical human speech to create a sequence of poems at once complex and intimate. The gods he speaks of do not always inspire trust, but do, however, inspire lyric poetry of sheer beauty....[When] the gods take flight and the poet is thrown back upon himself, he has that self to fall back on....deeply changed by having participated in the creation of days...."
—Alfred Nicol