W.F. Lantry

About the Artist

W.F. Lantry’s poetry collections are The Terraced Mountain (Little Red Tree 2015), The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tree 2012) winner of a 2013 Nautilus Award in Poetry, The Language of Birds (2011) and a forthcoming collection, The Book of Maps. He received his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Honors include the National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry, CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize, Crucible Editors' Poetry Prize, Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (Israel), Comment Magazine Poetry Award (Canada), Paris/Atlantic Young Writers Award (France), Old Red Kimono Paris Lake Poetry Prize and Potomac Review Prize. His work has appeared widely online and in print in journals such as Asian Cha, Gulf Coast, Gargoyle and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He is the editor of Peacock Journal, an online literary and arts journal, and biannual print anthology.

Artist's Statement

In a poem or story, you are inviting a reader to go on a walk with you. You know the forest well, but she does not, and if the writing is good, she can see the forest the way you do. She can live in your head for a little while. That's the beauty of art: it offers us a different sight, a new vision, a harmonious communion outside our past experience.