Printable view of William Leo Coakley

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

New York, NY

New York US

Email:

helikonp@gmail.com

Bio:

Have recently read my poetry at the Poetry Society, London,and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum,, the Irish American Writers and Artists,and the BoxoFFICE art gallery in New York, on Montreal's CKUT "Labour Radio," at the Union Square Barnes & Noble as part of the 2011 and 2015 W. B. Yeats Society Annual Award Winners programs; at the New England Poetry Club in Cambridge; and at the 2014-16 Rainbow Book Fairs.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Boston

Raised in:

Boston, MA

Prizes won:

"Discovery" Award,92nd St. Y Poetry Center; Duncan Lawrie Prize, Sotheby's International Poetry Competition; 2011 and 2015 W. B. Yeats Society Annual Award: Honorable Mentions; long list, Montréal Prize, 2015; finalist, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2015; longlist, National Poetry Competition (England), 2016; 2013 Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, New England Poetry Club, Boston (for translation of a Cavafy poem); shortlist, 2019 Irish Times Hennessy. Prize for New Irish Writing.