Wally SwistWally Swist's books of poetry include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as the co-winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Competition; The Daodejing: A New Interpreation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015); and Candling the Eggs (Shanti Arts, 2017). He has also published books of prose, including Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018) and On Beauty: Essays, Reviews, Fiction, and Plays (Adelaide Books, 2018). His work has appeared in many publications, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Appalachia, Commonweal, Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac, North American Review, Poetry Daily, Rattle, and Sunken Garden Poetry, 1992-2011 (Wesleyan University Press, 2012). Swist makes his home in South Amherst, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less