Richard Newman (poet)

Richard Newman (born March 25, 1966) is an American poet and the editor of River Styx. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections: All the Wasted Beauty of the World (Able Muse, 2014), Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009), and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005).

Born in Illinois, raised in southern Indiana, and now living in St. Louis, Newman is the author of All the Wasted Beauty of the World (Able Muse, 2014),Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009), and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005), and four poetry chapbooks: 24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times (Snark Publishing/Firecracker Press, 2007), Monster Gallery: 19 Terrifying and Amazing Monster Sonnets! (Snark Publishing, 2005), Tastes Like Chicken and Other Meditations (Snark Publishing, 2004), and Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 2001).

His work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2006 (edited by Billy Collins), Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry,Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac,Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, The Ledge (as winner of The Ledge 2010 Poetry Competition), New Letters, (where he won the 2006 Reader's Choice Award),Poetry Daily,The Sun, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and many other periodicals and anthologies.

Newman earned his MFA at the Brief-Residency Writing Program at Spalding University. He teaches at Washington University and UMSL Honors College, reviews books for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and has served as editor for River Styx since 1994. He is a member of The CharFlies, a junk-folk band in St. Louis, Missouri.

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