Todd Boss
Welcome to the poetry of
Doings
In June 2010, Norton will releases the paperback of Todd’s debut poetry collection, Yellowrocket,
in Europe, India, Africa, and the Middle East.
02/10 Mpls/St. Paul Magazine ranks Todd at #14 in their list of “40 Sexy People, Places, and Things.”
08/09 Todd is working with composer Andy Vores to bring a verse adaption of Knut Hamsun’s Pan to the concert stage in winter 2010-11.
01/10 Todd leads a poetry workshop
at the Key West Literary Seminar.
08/09 Todd wins Midwest Bookseller’s
Honor Book Award for Yellowrocket.
08/09 Todd launches poetry animation project
at motionpoems.com.
01/09 Todd wins Emily Clark Balch Prize from VQR, which names Yellowrocket one of the year’s 10 best poetry books.
Appearances
Poems
Sisterwolf Books, Dorset, MN
June 25 (2pm)
Stevens Point, WI
November 5
Ted Kooser’s syndicated “American Life in Poetry” column (Father’s Day, 2009)
NPR’s The Splendid Table (Spring 2009)
Willow Springs (Summer, 2009)
Georgia Review (Fall, 2009)
Ecotone (Winter 2009-10)
Knockout (Winter 2009-10)
Verse Wisconsin
Alaska Quarterly Review
Asheville Poetry Review
Poetry Magazine (March, 2010)
The Normal School (Spring, 2010)
Best American Poetry 2010
New poems
Videos
Copyright 2008 Todd Boss. All rights reserved. Reprint permission available upon request.
Contact: ToddBossPoet(at)mac(dot)com
Over and over again, I find that people who “don’t like poetry” tend to like my poetry.
Poets have long been accused of writing only for academia. Like Billy Collins, I write for academia ... and everybody else.
About his audience,
Todd says: