Poetry. "Richard Fox weaves lyrical magic in his SWAGGER & REMORSE, a book-length series of poems at once intimate ('I'd rather be a river than anything else') and richly metaphysical ('Trees look inside the houses, see all the wood & cannot look away'). They help us to consider grief -'I'll always / think of you as I pretend to eat the living air or pull / an origami swan out of nowhere / or out of someone's ear' - with humor and mystery and an elegant humanity. I recommend these distilled and powerful poems, with their birds and trees and houses and fires and rivers and hands and salt and blood to anyone who would like a fresh pair of eyes - 'Once a year the flowers on this very porch take wing / as if they just remembered something' - and a whole new landscape to marvel over" -Maureen Seaton.

Richard Fox's poems have appeared widely in many literary journals including Court Green, Diagram, TriQuarterly, Spinning Jenny and Painted Bride Quarterly. His poetry has been featured on-line at Verse Daily.com. A CD of his work was recorded in 2001. His video installation for the show "For Public Consumption" was exhibited from April 11 - June 3, 2007, on the 800 square-foot video facade at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. He received fellowships for poetry from the City of Chicago and the Illinois Arts Council. He holds a BFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art and lives in Chicago.