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Distant Engines
Distant Engines is one of the three winners of The Weldon Kees Award for 2005 from The Backwaters Press.
48 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2006
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About the author
Ryan Vine
4 booksRyan Vine is the author of The Cave (Texas Review Press, 2025); WARD (Texas Review Press, 2021), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award; To Keep Him Hidden (Salmon Poetry, 2018), winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award; and Distant Engines (Backwaters Press, 2006), winner of a Weldon Kees Award.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming
in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Blackbird, The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac.
His honors include the Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Poetry Prize, 2nd Prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition, an Artist Initiative Grant and a Creative Support Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, three McKnight/ARAC Career Development Grants, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and he has been a finalist or nominee for numerous others, including—selected by former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky—the Dorset Prize.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming
in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Blackbird, The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and on National Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac.
His honors include the Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Poetry Prize, 2nd Prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition, an Artist Initiative Grant and a Creative Support Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, three McKnight/ARAC Career Development Grants, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and he has been a finalist or nominee for numerous others, including—selected by former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky—the Dorset Prize.
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