Richard Siken | |
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 Siken in 2001 | |
| Born | February 15, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona (BA. MFA) |
Richard Siken (born February 15, 1967) is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of the collection Crush (Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004.[1] His second book of poems, War of the Foxes, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015.