Poetry
The winner of the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Competition and the Esmé Bradberry Contemporary Poets Prize, Gilsdorf has been awarded a grant from the Vermont Arts Council (1999) and residencies at the Millay Colony (New York), the Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education (Vermon), the New Pacific Studio (New Zealand) and Vermont Studio Center (Vermont).
His poems can be seen in Poetry, The Southern Review, The North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Poetry London, plus anthologies like Future Welcome; Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry; Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades; Radio Waves: Poems Celebrating the Wireless; and In the Criminal's Cabinet. Gilsdorf was also the Paris regional coordinator for Poets For Peace/United Poets Coalition. He also serves on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project (MassPop).
Ethan Gilsdorf was awarded a 2007 Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council/Mass Cultural Council for a non-fiction book in progress.
Some poems:
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