A New Song

Gary Gildner has received a National Magazine Award, Pushcart prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and the Iowa Poetry Prize for The Bunker in the Parsley Fields (Iowa, 1997). He's read at the Library of Congress and on the ferry crossing Lake Michigan. Rita Moreno reads his poem “In My Meanest Daydream” in When It Was a Game. Gildner’s most recent collection of stories, his fourth, is The Capital of Kansas City (BkMk, 2016). In addition to eight volumes of poetry, Gildner has published two memoirs: Memoirs: The Warsaw Sparks (Iowa, 1990; Nebraska, 2008), and My Grandfather’s Book (Michigan State, 2002). A collection of personal essays, How I Married Michele, will appear in 2020 from BkMk. He lives in Arizona’s Catalina Mountains.