John SurowieckiJohn Surowiecki has published fourteen books of poetry. His most recent chapbook, a collection of elegies called Missing Persons, won the Encircle Press Chapbook Prize. Other chapbooks have won contests from Burnside Review Press, White Eagle Coffee tore Press, Portlandia Group and West Town Press. His The Place of the Solitaires: Poems from Titles by Wallace Stevens, was published in 2022 by Wolfson Press. Surowiecki is the recipient of the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for a verse-play My Nose and Me (A TragedyLite or TragiDelight in 33 Scenes) which was presented by the Foundation at the Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, directed by the late Bernie Sahlins as part of the Poetry on Stage series; staged readings were also produced at the University of Connecticut and elsewhere. Read More Read Less