Todd Boss

01/10 In June, the paperback of Todd’s debut poetry collection, Yellowrocket, will be available in Europe, India, Africa, and the Middle East.

04/10 Twin Cities Public Television partners with Todd’s animated Motionpoems project to present motionpoems regularly on “Minnesota Original.”

12/09 Todd launches Flurry, vol.3, an online journal of wintry poetry, intermittently, from Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin.

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.

08/09 Todd leads a poetry workshop at the Key West Literary Seminar in January, 2010.

08/09 Todd wins Midwest Bookseller’s

Honor Book Award for Yellowrocket.

08/09 Todd launches poetry animation project

04/09 Todd blogs for The Best American Poetry about creation, the sacred, and children.

03/09 Todd wins a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Prize for 3 poems.

02/09 Todd blogs as a founding member of Squad 365, a book marketing think-team.

01/09 Todd wins Emily Clark Balch Prize from VQR, which names Yellowrocket one of the year’s 10 best poetry books.

About his audience,

Todd says:

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 the academy. Like Billy Collins, I write for the academy and everybody else.

Contact: ToddBossPoet(at)mac(dot)com

Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN

Dec 2 (8pm) “The Works” presents a screening of Motionpoems

Jan 7-14 (workshop faculty)

A special Valentine’s Day Love-In

with poet Terri Ford, and singer/songwriters Mother Banjo and Chad Elliott

Feb 14 (Showtimes at 6 and 8:15, with dinner. Call to reserve: 952-401-7902.)

Birchbark Books, Minneapolis, MN

Mar 10 (7pm)

Ted Kooser’s syndicated “American Life in Poetry” column (Father’s Day, 2009)

NPR’s The Splendid Table (Spring 2009)

Willow Springs (Summer, 2009)

Ecotone (Winter 2009-10)

Knockout (Winter 2009-10)

Verse Wisconsin

Alaska Quarterly Review

Asheville Poetry Review

The Normal School (Spring, 2010)

Best American Poetry 2010