William Stobb Explained

William Stobb is an American poet and professor. He is the author of the National Poetry Series selection, Nervous Systems (Penguin 2007), Absentia (Penguin 2011), and You Are Still Alive (42 Miles Press 2019) as well as three chapbooks.

Life

William Stobb was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of North Dakota and the University of Nevada. He teaches at University of Wisconsin - La Crosse.

His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, American Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly,^[1] Kenyon Review, and Denver Quarterly. He creates audio art that can be heard on SoundCloud.

He is Associate Editor of Conduit, a literary magazine based in St. Paul. He was chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission from 2014-2017. His monthly column on poetry and poetics, “Hard to Say”, was podcast by miPOradio from 2004-2010.

He has presented at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference.^[2]

He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin.^{[3] [4]}

Awards

• 1994 Academy of American Poets' Thomas McGrath Award
• 2000 Nevada Arts Council Poetry Fellowship
• 2006 National Poetry Series
• 2012 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize.
• 2014 Science Fiction Poetry Association Long Form Prize
• 2016 Science Fiction Poetry Association Long Form Prize
• 2019 Council for Wisconsin Writers Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction
• 2019 42 Miles Press Book Award

Bibliography

Poetry collections

• Book: Nervous Systems. Penguin Books. 2007. 978-0-14-311199-3. registration.
• Book: Absentia. Penguin Books. 2011 . .
• Book: You Are Still Alive. 42 Miles Press. 2019. .

Poetry chapbooks

• Book: For Better Night Vision: Poems. Reno. Black Rock. 2001 . University of Nevada.
• Book: Artifact Eleven: Desert Poems. Reno. Black Rock. 2010 . University of Nevada.

External links

• "Author's website"
• Author's Academy of American Poets entry.
• "Hard to Say", miPOradio
• "A Brief Interruption" and "Entropic," Diode 12.2, 2017.
• "What Is Happening" and "Earl of Rochester," Kenyon Review 37.4
• "Absentia"; "Natural History", The Offending Adam 001.2, 2010
• "In a Mountain Pasture "; "Some Purple"; "Release"; "In/and", Jacket 35, 2008
• "Pointless Channel"; "I Struggle to Live in Harmony / with the Forms", Pistol Magazine, March 7, 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: NDQ: North Dakota Quarterly. 1996.
2. http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2010sched.php
3. http://www.pistolamag.org/poetry/Entries/2008/3/7_William_Stobb.html
4. Web site: Alumni at Viterbo University . www.viterbo.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060901105936/http://www.viterbo.edu/alumni.aspx?id=13702 . 2006-09-01.