Richard Newman Richard Newman is the author of the poetry collections All the Wasted Beauty of the World (Able Muse Press, 2014), Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009), and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005). His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in Best Amrican Poetry, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, Midwestern Gothic, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, The Sun, and many other periodicals and anthologies, and have been featured several times on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. His poem “Bellefontaine Cemetery” won First Place in The Ledge 2010 Poetry Awards Competition. His plays have been performed in San Diego’s North Park Playwright Festival and the Spectrum festival in St. Louis. A recipient of a 2014 Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, Newman teaches at Washington University, and for the Read More Read Less