Poetry. In his newest collection, Kevin Pilkington takes the reader on a vivid explorative journey. It is a journey that begins in New York City where he lives and where he distills its concrete landscape with an insightful, unexpected use of language and imagery. His Boswellian eye for detail and accuracy of insight continues as he travels to New England, and onto the beaches of California, Mexico, the Caribbean and then to Greece. Each poem in the collection is a discovery transforming the familiar into an individual, unique experience. These poems are personal confrontations with the world and the ultimate inner discovery of what it means to be human.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Kevin Pilkington's poetry collection, Spare Change (1997) won the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award, Ready to Eat the Sky (River City Press, 2004) was a finalist for an Independent Publishers Books Award and his chapbook, Getting By, was awarded the Ledge Poetry Prize. He is also the author of IN THE EYES OF A DOG (NYQ Books, 2009) and THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). His poems have appeared in many anthologies including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, Contemporary Poetry of New England and a wide variety of journals, including The New York Quarterly, Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Columbia, Greensboro Review, and The Valparaiso Review. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he is a member of the full-time writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches a workshop in the graduate program at Manhattanville College.