Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar 2

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Malachi Black is the author of Indirect Light, forthcoming from Four Way Books in
2024, and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the
Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for
the PSA’s New American Poets Series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). Black’s poems
have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Los Angeles
Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among other
journals, and in a number of anthologies, including Before the Door of God: An
Anthology of Devotional Poetry (Yale UP, 2013), The Poet’s Quest for God
(Eyewear Publishing [U.K.], 2016) and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets
Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence, 2024). Black’s work has been supported by
fellowships and awards from the Amy Clampitt House, the Bread Loaf Writers’
Conference, Emory University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,
Hawthornden Castle, the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Poetry Foundation (a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship), the Sewanee Writers’
Conference, and Yaddo. Black’s poems have several times been set to music and
have been featured in exhibitions both in the U.S. and abroad, including recent
and forthcoming translations into French, Dutch, Croatian, Slovenian, and
Lithuanian. Black teaches at the University of San Diego and lives in California.