Ryan Black

Biography

Ryan Black is the author of The Tenant of Fire (University of Pittsburgh, 2019), winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Death of a Nativist (PSA, 2017), selected by Linda Gregerson for the Poetry Society of America’s 2016 Chapbook Fellowship. He is the Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Queens College/CUNY. 

See Work

POETRY / Spring 2019

Duke Ellington, Live at the Aquacade

By Ryan Black

A paycheck. A nadir. Hired as accompaniment
for sequined swimmers in an amphitheater in Queens.
To keep the band working. A footnote.

POETRY / Spring 2019

Hawk-Man

By Ryan Black