On the Last Day of the Year

Robert Wood Lynn is a poet from Virginia. His debut collection, Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022), was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and was selected by The New York Times for its list of Best Poetry of 2022. His poems have been featured in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Poetry Daily, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere. A 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, Lynn lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia.