Missouri Author Series Presents Walter Bargen

Missouri's first Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen, is the featured writer at MSU's Missouri Author Series.

Bargen held the title of Missouri Poet Laureate from February 2008 to January 2010. He has published 19 books of poetry. His most recent books are: Days Like This Are Necessary: New and Selected Poems (2009); Endearing Ruins (2012); Trouble Behind Glass Doors (2013); Quixotic (2014); Gone West (2014); and Three-Corner Catch (2015).

His awards include a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship (1991); the Quarter After Eight Prose Prise (1996); the Hanks Prize (1996); the Chester H. Jones Foundation Prize (1997); the William Rockhill Nelson Award (2005); and the Short Fiction Award - A cappella Zoo (2011).

His poems, essays and stories have appeared in more than 300 magazines, including American Literary Review; International Quarterly; Missouri Review; New Letters; New Novel Review; Pleiades; Poetry Northwest; River Styx; Seneca Review; Sycamore Review; and Witness. 

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