Why We Chose It: “Inflorescence”

Andrew Grace taught at Stanford University, Washington University, and the University of Cincinnati before recently joining the Department of English at Kenyon. His books of poetry include A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing, 2002), Shadeland (The Ohio State University Press, 2008), and Sancta (Ahsahta Press, 2012). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Prairie Schooner. Grace was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford and is the winner of an Academy of American Poets prize.