Rennie McQuilkinRennie McQuilkin is the Poet Laureate of Connecticut and the author of twelve earlier poetry collections. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, Crazyhorse, and elewhere. He has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Connecticut Center for the Book; and in 2010, his volume of new and selected poems, The Weathering, was awarded the Center's annual poetry prize under the aegis of the Library of Congress. For nine years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he co-founded at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut. With his wife, the artist Sarah McQuilkin, he lives in Simsbury, CT, where he is the local poet laureate. Read More Read Less