William Wenthe has published five books of poems, most recently, The Gentle Art, published by LSU Press in Fall 2023. His previous book is God’s Foolishness, also from LSU Press. He has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Harvard Review, Tin House, Poetry Ireland Review, AGNI, Threepenny Review, and others; and his essays on the craft of poetry have appeared in The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and The Writers Chronicle. Originally from Northern New Jersey, he teaches poetry at Texas Tech University.
