Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1971. He is the author of four books of poems, Travelers Leaving for the City, Mister Skylight, Rough Day, and Run the Red Lights. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Publications
Books
Travelers Leaving for the City – Copper Canyon Press (2020)
Run the Red Lights – Copper Canyon Press (2016)
Rough Day – Copper Canyon Press (2013)
Mister Skylight – Copper Canyon Press (2009)
Chapbooks
Field Recordings – Seattle: Lit Rag Press (2003)
L’Allegro and Il Penseroso – Wells College Book Arts Center (2001)
Tool Kit – University of Montana Merriam/Frontier Prize (1996)
Poetry in Journals
"Single People," "Ordering the Matter." Sewanee Review
"May." Harper's Magazine
"Division Street," "Elegy for My Father," "Tomato." American Poetry Review, 2024
"Alaska Airlines," "Highland," "Sestina." Epoch, Fall 2024
"Big Stupid Face." Gettysburg Review
"The Magpie." Poetry Northwest.
"History Channels." Pacifica Review
"Traveling for Work." Southern Review
"Kaw, a River," "Morning." Bennington Review, Issue 10, April 2022
“Pittsburgh,” The New Yorker, October 21, 2019.
“Night,” Harper’s Magazine, July 2019.
“from Travelers Leaving for the City,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 94/2, Summer 2018.
“Guard? Guard!” Poetry, October 2017.
“Red Desert.” Harper’s Magazine, November 2016.
“Hurry.” New York Times Magazine, September 15, 2016.
“Gwendolyn Brooks Park, Topeka.” Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poetry, July 27, 2016.
“The Red Bird,” Subtropics, Spring, 2016.
“The Immortals,” Southern Humanities Review, Spring 2016.
“Fladry.” The Literary Review, 58:4, 2015.
“Run the Red Lights,” Copper Nickel 2015.
“Free Climb,” New England Review, Winter 2015.
“Grateful Dead Tapes” and “Downstream,” Tin House, Summer 2015.
“My Other Name” and “Same Sound,” Denver Quarterly, Spring 2015.
“Lolo Pass,” The Normal School, Summer 2014.
“Turtles,” “Being in Plays,” “Washington,” and “When.” American Poetry Review.
January/February 2014.
“The Macarena,” Fruita Pulp (selected for Best American Poetry) online, 2014.
“Migratory Restlessness,” American Poetry Review, March/April 2012.
“Love.” Narrative Spring 2011.
“Nature Song for Shane MacGowan to Sing” “Love Song for Minor Threat to Sing”
“Hurt Song for Wu-Tang Clan to Do.” Gulf Coast Winter/Spring 2011.
“The West is a Place that Kills and Kills and Kills.” Poetry Northwest Fall/Winter 2010.
“Get Free.” Ploughshares guest ed. Terrence Hayes Winter 2010-11.
“Lightning.” Ploughshares guest ed. Terrence Hayes Winter 2010-11.
“Orpheus and Eurydice.” Tin House Fall 2010.
“Mother Song for the Postman Not to Deliver.” New Orleans Review 34: 2 (2010).
“Go.” Painted Bride Quarterly 82 (2010).
“from Visitor.” Critical Quarterly(UK) 52.1 (July 2010): 63-65.
“Memory Loss.” American Poetry Review 38.3 (2009).
“West Coast.” Narrative Winter 2009.
“Readership Survey.” Narrative Winter 2009.
“October.” Paris Review 186 (Fall 2008).
“Like Night Catching Jackrabbits in Barbed Wire.” American Poetry Review 37.2(2008).
“What I Did During the War.” Threepenny Review 112 (Winter 2007).
“Los Angeles Quickmap.” Cincinnati Review 5.1 (Fall 2008).
“The Migration.” Mississippi Review: The Prose Poem Issue 13.1 (2007): 56.
“Little Song #2/Pequeña Cancón # 2.” El Nacional(Venezuela) 23 June 2007: Literario 9.
“Help in 7 Languages Written on the Skeleton Coast” Practice 2 (2007): 84-86.
“All Aboard.” Naked Punch (UK) 8 (2007): 43.
“Third Thought.” NO: A Journal of the Arts 5 (Winter 2003): 184-188.
“Ruler of My Heart.” Ploughshares guest ed. Kevin Young 32.1 (2006): 139.
“Season Finale.” New Orleans Review 31.2 (2006): 194-95.
“Bela.” Blackbird 5.1 (Spring 2006). Web. 17 September 07.
“Third Thought.” NO: a journal of the arts 5 (2006): 86.
“My Life with Louis Armstrong,” The Literary Review (2006): 13-14.
“Test Plate Displaying 12 Different Patterns, circa 1830.” Willow Springs 56 (2005): 26.
“The Carolers” and “Home at Thirty.” Poetry December 2004: 197-98.
“Horror Show.” The Canary 3 (2004): 39.
“Wild Hog in Cemetery.” The New Republic July 24, 2004: 44.
“Cabrera Infante.” Fourteen Hills 10.1(2004): 115-118.
“Holiday Radio Show.” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 32.
“Pilgrim: An Ode.” NO: A Journal of the Arts 1 (Winter 2003): 184-188.
“Everything, Everything is Broken.” Indiana Review 24.2 (2002): 28.
“Après-Ski.” Fine Madness 27 (2001): 45.
“Honeycomb” and “Flamingos” New Orleans Review 27.2 (2001): 75
“Three Poems.” Poem 86 (2001): 6-11.
“Two Poems.” Laurel Review 34.1 (2000): 68-70.
“Tumbling Dice.” Marlboro Review 10 (Summer/Fall 2000): 60-61.
“Second Line.” New Orleans Review 25.4 (Winter 1999/2000): 86.
“Autobiographical.” Slate 19 May 99. Web. 17 September 09.
“Crowd Local No. 242.” Gulf Coast IX.1 (Winter 1997): 62-64.
“The Tale of What We Are.” Marlboro Review 3 (Winter/Spring 1997): 90-92.
“Answer to Crowd.” Cimarron Review 120 (July 1997): 147.
“Paseo del Volcan.” The Worcester Review XXI.1 (1997): 41.
“Math.” Chariton Review 22.2 (1997): 102-103.
“Black Eye for the Son of Crowd.” Third Coast Winter 1996: 91.
“Elegy for P.N.” Talking River Review Spring 1996: 73-74.
“The Genuine Suffering of Lawyers.” Sonora Review 30 (1995): 21-22.
Short Fiction in journals
Chapter 10. Hotel Angeline. Open Road, 2011.
“Falling Action.” Tampa Review 30 (2007): 26-28.
“Regional Management.” Redivider 4.1 (2006): 30-43.
“Land of the Violent Dead.” Sou’wester Fall 2004: 10-17.
“Motor Voter.” Small Spiral Notebook 1.1 (2003): 92-99.
“The Kansas-Nebraska Act.” Santa Monica Review 15.1 (Spring 2003): 16-22.
“Gooseberries in Russian.” Santa Monica Review 14.2 (Fall 2002): 5-9.
“I’m Walking.” 3rd Bed 6 (2002): 125-128.
“Sister City.” Mid-American Review 12.2 (2002): 36-42.
“Spring Among the Politicians.” Weber Studies 17.3 (2000): 78-88.
Other Prose
“Andy Young,” The Rumpus, forthcoming
“Geoffrey O’Brien’s Metropole.” Los Angeles Review of Books, Spring 2011.
“Notes on YouTube Clips of ‘Billy in the Lowground’.” Coldfront.org, Spring 2011.
“An Appreciation of Carolyn Kizer.” Poetry Northwest Spring 2011.
“An Appreciation of W.S Merwin.” Fugue Spring 2006.
Poetry columns for Westchester Daily Times, 2002-04.
Book reviews for the Ithaca Book world, 1996-2000.
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
Finalist, Oregon Book Awards for Run the Red Lights and Travelers Leaving for the City
Washington State Book Award for Rough Day
Inclusion in Best American Poetry (2015)
Lyric Poetry Award, Poetry Society of America
Lannan Foundation Residency, Marfa, Texas
Fellow and Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Writer in Residence, Hugo House
Public Readings and Performances
Raymond Carver Literary Festival, Clatskanie, Oregon (2024)
Skagit Poetry Festival (2022)
Gwendolyn Brooks Festival
Washburn University
Eastern Washington University
Cornell University
Conference Presentations
AWP Panelist – Eleanor Ross Taylor
AWP Panelist – Guillaume Apollinaire
AWP Panels – Various years
Publications
Books
Travelers Leaving for the City – Copper Canyon Press (2020)
Run the Red Lights – Copper Canyon Press (2016)
Rough Day – Copper Canyon Press (2013)
Mister Skylight – Copper Canyon Press (2009)
Chapbooks
Field Recordings – Seattle: Lit Rag Press (2003)
L’Allegro and Il Penseroso – Wells College Book Arts Center (2001)
Tool Kit – University of Montana Merriam/Frontier Prize (1996)
Poetry in Journals
"Single People," "Ordering the Matter." Sewanee Review
"May." Harper's Magazine
"Division Street," "Elegy for My Father," "Tomato." American Poetry Review, 2024
"Alaska Airlines," "Highland," "Sestina." Epoch, Fall 2024
"Big Stupid Face." Gettysburg Review
"The Magpie." Poetry Northwest.
"History Channels." Pacifica Review
"Traveling for Work." Southern Review
"Kaw, a River," "Morning." Bennington Review, Issue 10, April 2022
“Pittsburgh,” The New Yorker, October 21, 2019.
“Night,” Harper’s Magazine, July 2019.
“from Travelers Leaving for the City,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 94/2, Summer 2018.
“Guard? Guard!” Poetry, October 2017.
“Red Desert.” Harper’s Magazine, November 2016.
“Hurry.” New York Times Magazine, September 15, 2016.
“Gwendolyn Brooks Park, Topeka.” Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poetry, July 27, 2016.
“The Red Bird,” Subtropics, Spring, 2016.
“The Immortals,” Southern Humanities Review, Spring 2016.
“Fladry.” The Literary Review, 58:4, 2015.
“Run the Red Lights,” Copper Nickel 2015.
“Free Climb,” New England Review, Winter 2015.
“Grateful Dead Tapes” and “Downstream,” Tin House, Summer 2015.
“My Other Name” and “Same Sound,” Denver Quarterly, Spring 2015.
“Lolo Pass,” The Normal School, Summer 2014.
“Turtles,” “Being in Plays,” “Washington,” and “When.” American Poetry Review.
January/February 2014.
“The Macarena,” Fruita Pulp (selected for Best American Poetry) online, 2014.
“Migratory Restlessness,” American Poetry Review, March/April 2012.
“Love.” Narrative Spring 2011.
“Nature Song for Shane MacGowan to Sing” “Love Song for Minor Threat to Sing”
“Hurt Song for Wu-Tang Clan to Do.” Gulf Coast Winter/Spring 2011.
“The West is a Place that Kills and Kills and Kills.” Poetry Northwest Fall/Winter 2010.
“Get Free.” Ploughshares guest ed. Terrence Hayes Winter 2010-11.
“Lightning.” Ploughshares guest ed. Terrence Hayes Winter 2010-11.
“Orpheus and Eurydice.” Tin House Fall 2010.
“Mother Song for the Postman Not to Deliver.” New Orleans Review 34: 2 (2010).
“Go.” Painted Bride Quarterly 82 (2010).
“from Visitor.” Critical Quarterly(UK) 52.1 (July 2010): 63-65.
“Memory Loss.” American Poetry Review 38.3 (2009).
“West Coast.” Narrative Winter 2009.
“Readership Survey.” Narrative Winter 2009.
“October.” Paris Review 186 (Fall 2008).
“Like Night Catching Jackrabbits in Barbed Wire.” American Poetry Review 37.2(2008).
“What I Did During the War.” Threepenny Review 112 (Winter 2007).
“Los Angeles Quickmap.” Cincinnati Review 5.1 (Fall 2008).
“The Migration.” Mississippi Review: The Prose Poem Issue 13.1 (2007): 56.
“Little Song #2/Pequeña Cancón # 2.” El Nacional(Venezuela) 23 June 2007: Literario 9.
“Help in 7 Languages Written on the Skeleton Coast” Practice 2 (2007): 84-86.
“All Aboard.” Naked Punch (UK) 8 (2007): 43.
“Third Thought.” NO: A Journal of the Arts 5 (Winter 2003): 184-188.
“Ruler of My Heart.” Ploughshares guest ed. Kevin Young 32.1 (2006): 139.
“Season Finale.” New Orleans Review 31.2 (2006): 194-95.
“Bela.” Blackbird 5.1 (Spring 2006). Web. 17 September 07.
“Third Thought.” NO: a journal of the arts 5 (2006): 86.
“My Life with Louis Armstrong,” The Literary Review (2006): 13-14.
“Test Plate Displaying 12 Different Patterns, circa 1830.” Willow Springs 56 (2005): 26.
“The Carolers” and “Home at Thirty.” Poetry December 2004: 197-98.
“Horror Show.” The Canary 3 (2004): 39.
“Wild Hog in Cemetery.” The New Republic July 24, 2004: 44.
“Cabrera Infante.” Fourteen Hills 10.1(2004): 115-118.
“Holiday Radio Show.” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 32.
“Pilgrim: An Ode.” NO: A Journal of the Arts 1 (Winter 2003): 184-188.
“Everything, Everything is Broken.” Indiana Review 24.2 (2002): 28.
“Après-Ski.” Fine Madness 27 (2001): 45.
“Honeycomb” and “Flamingos” New Orleans Review 27.2 (2001): 75
“Three Poems.” Poem 86 (2001): 6-11.
“Two Poems.” Laurel Review 34.1 (2000): 68-70.
“Tumbling Dice.” Marlboro Review 10 (Summer/Fall 2000): 60-61.
“Second Line.” New Orleans Review 25.4 (Winter 1999/2000): 86.
“Autobiographical.” Slate 19 May 99. Web. 17 September 09.
“Crowd Local No. 242.” Gulf Coast IX.1 (Winter 1997): 62-64.
“The Tale of What We Are.” Marlboro Review 3 (Winter/Spring 1997): 90-92.
“Answer to Crowd.” Cimarron Review 120 (July 1997): 147.
“Paseo del Volcan.” The Worcester Review XXI.1 (1997): 41.
“Math.” Chariton Review 22.2 (1997): 102-103.
“Black Eye for the Son of Crowd.” Third Coast Winter 1996: 91.
“Elegy for P.N.” Talking River Review Spring 1996: 73-74.
“The Genuine Suffering of Lawyers.” Sonora Review 30 (1995): 21-22.
Short Fiction in journals
Chapter 10. Hotel Angeline. Open Road, 2011.
“Falling Action.” Tampa Review 30 (2007): 26-28.
“Regional Management.” Redivider 4.1 (2006): 30-43.
“Land of the Violent Dead.” Sou’wester Fall 2004: 10-17.
“Motor Voter.” Small Spiral Notebook 1.1 (2003): 92-99.
“The Kansas-Nebraska Act.” Santa Monica Review 15.1 (Spring 2003): 16-22.
“Gooseberries in Russian.” Santa Monica Review 14.2 (Fall 2002): 5-9.
“I’m Walking.” 3rd Bed 6 (2002): 125-128.
“Sister City.” Mid-American Review 12.2 (2002): 36-42.
“Spring Among the Politicians.” Weber Studies 17.3 (2000): 78-88.
Other Prose
“Andy Young,” The Rumpus, forthcoming
“Geoffrey O’Brien’s Metropole.” Los Angeles Review of Books, Spring 2011.
“Notes on YouTube Clips of ‘Billy in the Lowground’.” Coldfront.org, Spring 2011.
“An Appreciation of Carolyn Kizer.” Poetry Northwest Spring 2011.
“An Appreciation of W.S Merwin.” Fugue Spring 2006.
Poetry columns for Westchester Daily Times, 2002-04.
Book reviews for the Ithaca Book world, 1996-2000.
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
Finalist, Oregon Book Awards for Run the Red Lights and Travelers Leaving for the City
Washington State Book Award for Rough Day
Inclusion in Best American Poetry (2015)
Lyric Poetry Award, Poetry Society of America
Lannan Foundation Residency, Marfa, Texas
Fellow and Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Writer in Residence, Hugo House
Public Readings and Performances
Raymond Carver Literary Festival, Clatskanie, Oregon (2024)
Skagit Poetry Festival (2022)
Gwendolyn Brooks Festival
Washburn University
Eastern Washington University
Cornell University
Conference Presentations
AWP Panelist – Eleanor Ross Taylor
AWP Panelist – Guillaume Apollinaire
AWP Panels – Various years
