Rennie McQuilkinRennie McQuilkin is the Poet Laureate of Connecticut. His poetry has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The American Scholar. He is the author of fifteen poetry collectins, some of which have won major awards. McQuilkin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and for many years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he co-founded at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT. In 2003 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book, and in 2010 his book The Weathering won the CT Book Award in Poetry. He lives in Simsbury, CT, where he is the local poet laureate. Read More Read Less