Former poet laureate of Utah Lance Larsen grew up in the West, mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and dreaming of catching Bigfoot on film. His sixth poetry collection, Making a Kingdom of It, will appear in fall 2025 from the University of Tampa Press. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, the Sewanee Review Prize, and the Swamp Pink Prize, as well as fellowships from Ragdale, the Anderson Center at Tower View, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Larsen teaches at Brigham Young University and likes to fool around with aphorisms: “When climbing a new mountain, wear old shoes.” Sometimes he juggles.
Poetry
Winter 2025
Up to Their Dirty Wrists
The Kenyon Review · “Up to Their Dirty Wrists” by Lance Larsen They couldn’t smuggle all of Saint Catherine’sbody out of Rome, but part of her,sure, that was worth a […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Peach
Call it treason, but I'm eating my way south. Chilean peaches, swaddled in green tissue. I buy them $1.79 a pound. In Kalamazoo, in the teeth of winter. Tart enough […]
Summer 2014
Riding the Bus
Two or three times a week I save the planet. That is, I leave my Corolla garaged and board the Utah County 820—a nine-mile, twenty-one minute commute that sweeps me […]