Bill Coyle is an American poet and translator. His poems and translations have appeared in anthologies and publications such as ''

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''. His debut poetry collection ''The God of this World to His Prophet'' received the 2006 New Criterion Poetry Prize.

Eric McHenry Eric McHenry (born April 12, 1972 Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2015-2017. Life McHenry graduated from Topeka High School. He graduated from Beloit College and from Boston University. In April 2015 he ...

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'' described the poem "Aubade" from ''The God of this World to His Prophet'' as "a single, flawless stroke", and wrote about the rest of the book: "If some of the poems that precede 'Aubade' seem, by contrast, a little too much under his control, offering the mastery without the mystery, well, there’s a lot to be said for mastery." As a translator he is responsible for the 2016 volume ''Dog Star Notations'', a collection of selected poems by the Swedish writer Håkan Sandell. Coyle teaches in the English Department at

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