Former poet laureate of Utah, Lance Larsen is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Making a Kingdom of It (Tampa, 2024). His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Southern Review, The Sun, Harvard Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, an NEA fellowship, and first place honors in recent contests sponsored by Missouri Review, Sewanee Review, and Swamp Pink. He’s made the notables list six times in Best American Essays. He teaches at BYU and fools around with aphorisms: “A woman needs a man the way a manatee needs a glockenspiel.” Sometimes he juggles.
Lance Larsen
Poetry