George Perreault

Poet

Reno, NV
Nevada US
Email: 
gmp@unr.edu
Website: 
www.georgeperreault.com

Author's Bio

George Perreault has worked as a visiting writer in Montana, New Mexico, and Utah, and he has received awards for poetry in Nevada and Washington. While his work is primarily lyrical, he also writes in the voices of ordinary men and women in contemporary America. His most recent book, Bodark County, explores the voices of characters living on the Llano Estacado in West Texas.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Coffee Poems (World Enough Writers, 2019)
,
Endlessly Rocking (unbound CONTENT, 2019)
,
America, We Call Your Name (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2018)
,
The Poetry of Capital (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)
,
What Lies Beyond the Frame (unbound CONTENT, 2018)
Books:
Bodark County (Grayson Books, 2016)
,
All the Verbs for Knowing (Black Rock Press, 2006)
,
Trying to Be Round (Singular Speech Press, 1994)
,
Curved Like an Eye (Ahsahta Press, 1988)
Journals:
American Journal of Poetry
,
Arts & Letters
,
Aurorean
,
Blue Collar Review
,
Blue Mesa Review
,
Blueline
,
Broad River Review
,
Burning Word
,
Chaleur Magazine
,
Chantwood Magazine
,
Common Ground Review
,
Crossways
,
Deadly Writers Patrol
,
Gravel Literary Journal
,
Helen Review
,
High Desert Journal
,
High Plains Literary Review
,
Into the Void
,
Journal of American Culture
,
Literature Today
,
Maine Review
,
Manzano Mountain Review
,
Mojave River Review
,
Northwest Review
,
Parhelion Literary Magazine
,
Rockvale Review
,
San Pedro River Review
,
Santa Clara Review
,
Sheila-Na-Gig
,
Shenandoah
,
Slant
,
Slant: A Journal of Poetry
,
Sleet Magazine
,
Southword Journal
,
Split Rock Review
,
Stillwater Review
,
The Deadly Writers Patrol
,
The Lyric
,
The RavensPerch
,
The Timberline Review
,
Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal
,
Weber—The Contemporary West
,
West Texas Literary Review
,
Worcester Review
Prizes won: 

Golden Fedora Award, Noir Nation

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Lowell, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Jan 07, 2020