Geoff Bouvier

Geoff Bouvier is an American prose poet. His newest book, Us From Nothing will be published by Wolsak & Wynn in Canada in 2023,[1] and by Black Lawrence Press in the US in 2024. Us From Nothing is a book-length serial epic prose poem about the most important milestones in human history from the big bang to the near future.[2]

His first book, Living Room, was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 The American Poetry Review Honickman Prize.[3][4][5] His second book, Glass Harmonica, was published in 2011 by Quale Press.[6][7] Recent writings have appeared in American Poetry Review,[8] Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, New American Writing, Western Humanities Review, and VOLT. He received an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 1997, and a PhD in Poetry at Florida State University in 2016. In 2009, he was the Roberta C. Holloway visiting poet at the University of California-Berkeley. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University[9] and Vermont College of Fine Arts.[10]