Robert Wood Lynn

Biography

Robert Wood Lynn is a poet from Virginia. His debut collection Mothman Apologia (Yale UP, 2022) was the winner of the 2021 Yale Younger Poets prize and the 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His work has been featured in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry, and other publications. He teaches poetry at Juilliard and the Bennington Writing Seminars.

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POETRY / Fall 2025

Believe It or Not

By Robert Wood Lynn

One by one the neighborhood songbirds visited
and stripped us of our brightest threads of pain

carrying them off for purposes that we couldn’t
quite fathom. So we got a dog, felt a little better.

POETRY / Fall 2025

December

By Robert Wood Lynn

Alex, do you think God appreciates us
this time of year, going out

in knit maroons, black leather? I’m still no good
at smoking but I liked best the part of your party

POETRY / Fall 2025

Hunting Season Is Always Has Always Been in the Fall

By Robert Wood Lynn

Okay so when we were little playing in the woods
every time we heard a gunshot hollow and clear

my brother would clutch his chest and fall over
every single time and it worked every time