Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze’s tenth book of poetry, Sight Lines (Copper Canyon, 2019), won the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • Circumference & Earthrise

    Vanilla farmers in Madagascar sit in the dark with rifles;
  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write
  • Sprang

    Before tracking pods of killer whales in and out
  • Doppler Effect

    Stopped in cars, we are waiting to accelerate
  • Glimmer Train | Strike-Slip

    Redwinged blackbirds in the cattail pond—