Vicari, Justin

Vicari, Justin

JUSTIN VICARI’S first full-length collection of poetry, The Professional Weepers, won the 2007-2008 Transcontinental Poetry Award, and is due out early next year from Pavement Saw Press. He is also the author of the poetry chapbook, Siamese Twins of the 21st Century (West Town Press, 2008), and the translator of Woman Bathing Light to Dark: Prose Poems of Paul Eluard (Toad Press, 2006). His work appears in Southern Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, Fugue, Phoebe, Redactions, 32 Poems, Paper Street, Eclipse, Interim, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Modern Review and Disquieting Muses Quarterly, and is forthcoming in Rhino and The Ledge. In 2005, he received the Third Coast Poetry Award, the New Millennium Writings Poetry Award, and the Plan B Press Short Fiction Award.