l. s. klatt

L. S. Klatt is the author of four collections of poetry, including Cloud of Ink, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and Interloper, awarded the Juniper Prize. Individual poems of his have appeared widely: The New Yorker, Harvard Review, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Poetry Daily, The Believer, Best American Poetry, Image, VOLT, and The Common.  

His poetry has inspired several artistic collaborations. “Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91” was made into a 90-second animated movie by MotionPoems; “American Concrete” was solicited by New York magazine Surface for a photo essay celebrating architectural innovation in Detroit; and “The Cardboard Fawn” appeared on placards as part of a traveling show on buses in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Klatt served as poet laureate.  

Besides his creative work, he has also published essays on poets, most notably “The Electric Whitman” in The Southern Review and “Blue Buzz, Blue Guitar: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Noisemaking” in The Georgia Review.  

He grew up in Cincinnati and found his way to Boston, Pittsburgh, Annapolis, Athens (Georgia), and Cortona, Italy, before settling in Michigan. He teaches literature and creative writing at Calvin University. 

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