Michael Waters

Michael Waters’ books include The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), and Celestial Joyride; Gospel Night; Darling Vulgarity (finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize); and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems from BOA Editions. He has co-edited Reel Verse, Contemporary American Poetr,y and Perfect in Their Art. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the NEA, Fulbright Foundation and NJ State Council on the Arts, Waters teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew University MFA Program.