Bruce Snider is an American poet originally from rural Indiana, who is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, George Washington University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Connecticut College. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Utne Reader, Zyzzyva, and Best American Poetry 2012. With the poet Shara Lessley, Snider co-edited The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press), an anthology of essays.
Awards Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington, George Washington University Robert Frost Fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, Pleaides Press Amy Clampitt House Residency James Merrill House Residency Archived version Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press James A. Michener Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Bibliography
Poetry Collections
Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013) The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press, 2018) co-editor Fruit (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedReading that Johnny Cash suffered from autonomic neuropathy when he recorded 'Hurt,'2025"The silence is unusually loud tonight,"2025
Education Master of Fine Arts University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Arts Indiana University
References
External links Bruce Snider's Website