{"id":2223,"date":"2016-07-15T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2016-07-15T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:13:23","slug":"2223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2016\/07\/15\/2223\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Wilson’s Pushcart nomination and publications"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re blown away by all of Ryan Wilson’s (Poetry ’08) recent achievements!<\/p>\n

Ryan’s poem \u201cXenia\u201d<\/a> was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Able Muse<\/em>, which nominated the poem for a Pushcart Prize. His\u00a0long poem, \u201cAuthority,\u201d <\/a>was published in the Spring 2016 issue of The Hopkins Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

Three poems\u2014\u201cL\u2019Esprit de l\u2019Escalier,\u201d \u201cIn the Harvest Season,\u201d<\/a> and the long poem \u201cIl Estraneo\u201d–were published in the Candlemas 2016 issue of Dappled Things.<\/em><\/p>\n

His poem \u201cHesperides\u201d was published in The Classical Outlook,<\/em> 91.1 (Spring 2016).<\/p>\n

Forthcoming poems include \u201cChildren of Privilege\u201d (Measure<\/em>)\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cFor a Dog\u201d (The Yale Review), <\/em>which\u00a0was named a finalist for the Frost Farm Prize and for the Morton Marr Prize.<\/p>\n

Ryan is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. \u00a0His essay \u201c \u2018Rich Refusals\u2019: Donald Justice and the New Critics,\u201d originally appearing in the Winter 2015 issue of The Sewanee Review<\/em>, was awarded the Walter Sullivan Prize for Promise in Criticism by that journal.<\/p>\n

The Sewanee Review<\/em> also published his essay \u201cWarren, Eliot, Dante, and the Promises of Tradition,\u201d an excerpt from his doctoral dissertation, in their Winter 2016 issue.<\/p>\n

The Hopkins Review<\/em> published his essay \u201cClassic Ransom\u201d in their Winter 2016 issue.<\/p>\n

His essay \u201cHow to Think Like a Poet,\u201d originally published in the Easter 2015 issue of Dappled Things<\/em>, was awarded the Jacques Maritain Prize for non-fiction. Additionally, it will be appearing later this year as a monograph from Wiseblood Books. For now, it remains available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the second straight year, his poetry manuscript,\u00a0The Stranger World,<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the Vassar Miller Book Prize.<\/p>\n

Finally, Ryan has\u00a0been newly hired as the Office Manager for the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (formerly housed at Boston University), and he is also the new editor of Literary Matters<\/em>, which will be forthcoming in a new format this Fall as an online journal.<\/p>\n

Hearty congratulations, Ryan!<\/p>\n

Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. His poems, translations, and essays appear widely, in journals such as 32 Poems, First Things, Iron Horse Literary Review, River Styx<\/em>, and Unsplendid<\/em>. Currently living in Baltimore with his wife, he is a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re blown away by all of Ryan Wilson’s (Poetry ’08) recent achievements! Ryan’s poem \u201cXenia\u201d was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Able Muse, which nominated the poem for a Pushcart Prize. His\u00a0long poem, \u201cAuthority,\u201d was published in the Spring 2016 issue of The Hopkins Review. Three poems\u2014\u201cL\u2019Esprit de l\u2019Escalier,\u201d \u201cIn the Harvest Season,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620,4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}