Todd Hearon (born ) is an American

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and

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. He is the author of three collections of poems -- STRANGE LAND, NO OTHER GODS and CROWS IN EDEN -- a number of plays and essays, and a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD. His first full-length studio album is BORDER RADIO, featuring thirteen original songs in the Americana and folk/folk-rock tradition. He lives in

Exeter, New Hampshire Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 16,049 at the 2020 census, up from 14,306 at the 2010 census. Exeter was the county seat until 1997, when county offices were moved to neighboring Brentwood. ...

and teaches literature and songwriting at

Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

Awards

* Poet-in-Residence, Dartmouth College and

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* Dobie-Paisano Creative Writing Fellowship/University of Texas, Austin * Paul Green Playwrights Prize * Crab Orchard Award/Southern Illinois University Press *

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New England/"Discovery" Award * Rumi Prize in Poetry/ Arts & Letters * Friends of Literature Prize/Poetry magazine and the

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* Campbell Corner Poetry Prize/Sarah Lawrence College * Songwriters Prize, First Place (for Lyrics)/

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Magazine

Works

Strange Land
(Winner of the Crab Orchard Award, judged by

Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former Poet L ...

, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010)
No Other Gods
(Salmon Poetry, 2015) Crows in Eden (forthcoming, Salmon Poetry, 2022) DO GEESE SEE GOD (forthcoming
Neutral Zones Press
2021) An online selection of poems can be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/todd-hearon https://www.memorious.org/?author=27 https://www.thecommononline.org/tag/todd-hearon/ https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/todd-hearon https://www.cincinnatireview.com/tag/todd-hearon/

References

External links

https://www.toddhearon.com https://toddhearon.bandcamp.com/album/border-radio {{DEFAULTSORT:Hearon, Todd Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets