![]() On March 19, 2019, Siken reported on his Facebook that he had recently suffered a stroke. Siken currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. Siken's book War of the Foxes became a recipient of two residencies with the Lannan Residency Program, and a Lannan Literary Selection. The 1991 death of his boyfriend influenced his writing of the book. ![]() ![]() Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for "Gay Men's Poetry" in 2005, and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. In 2001, Siken co-founded Spork Press, where he continues to work as an editor. in psychology and later a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Arizona. His second book of poems, War of the Foxes, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015. ![]() He is the author of the collection Crush ( Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. Richard Siken (born February 15, 1967) is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. ![]()
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