Run the Red Lights - Paperback

by Ed Skoog (Author)

Skoog's poetry is simultaneously minimal and monumental, and his conversational tone invites readers in with open arms

Author Biography

Ed Skoog: Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His first three books, Mister Skylight (2009), Rough Day (2013), and Run the Red Lights (2016) are all published by Copper Canyon Press. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and Ploughshares, among other publications, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award, the Washington State Book Award, the Faulkner's Marble Faun Prize in Poetry, a fellowship with Bread Loaf, and residencies with George Washington University and the Richard Hugo House. He lives in Portland, Oregon.