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John Wall Barger (born 1969 in Staten Island, New York) is a Canadian-American poet, critic, and editor. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] Barger's poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review[2], The Hopkins Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rattle, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. In 2017, Barger won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize. He is a contract editor with Frontenac House.

Barger lives in Vermont and teaches in the writing program at Dartmouth College.

Publications

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Essay Collection

Poetry Collections

  • Smog Mother (Palimpsest Press, 2022)
  • Resurrection Fail (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021): finalist for 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award, 2022 Raymond Souster Award, and 2020 Grayson Book Prize
  • The Mean Game (Palimpsest, 2019): finalist for 2020 Phillip H. McMath Book Award
  • The Book of Festus (Palimpsest, 2015): finalist for 2016 JM Abraham Poetry Award
  • Hummingbird (Palimpsest, 2012): finalist for 2013 Raymond Souster Award
  • Pain-proof Men (Palimpsest, 2009)

Chapbooks

  • The Kindness Machine (Moonstone, 2022)
  • Trying on the Walrus Costume in the Ed Sullivan Theater of the Mind (Bottlecap, 2022)
  • Dying in Dharamsala (Alfred Gustav Press, 2018)
  • The Vnfortunate Report & Tragicall Tidings of Leslie Barger (Thee Hellbox Press, 2016)
  • Samovar / Dukkha (Baseline Press, 2016)

Awards, honors, and fellowships

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Critical Works and Reviews

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References

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  1. ^ Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia [1]
  2. ^ Kenyon Review
  3. ^ Barger, John (2021). "Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral (review)". The Hopkins Review. 14 (1). Project MUSE: 142–146.

League of Canadian Poets

University of the Arts