Tony Trigilio

Tony Trigilio is the author and editor of seventeen books, including, most recently, The Punishment Book (BlazeVOX [books], 2024), the fourth installment in his multivolume cross-genre project, The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood). He is also the author of Craft: A Memoir (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023); Proof Something Happened; selected by Susan Howe as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize (Marsh Hawk, 2021); and Ghosts of the Upper Floor (BlazeVOX [books], 2019), among others. With Erik Mortenson, he co-edited The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation (Clemson University Press / Liverpool University Press, 2023). A volume of his selected poems, Fuera del Taller del Cosmos, was published in Guatemala in 2018 by Editorial Poe (translated by Bony Hernandez). He is the editor of the chapbook Dispatches from the Body Politic: Interviews with Jan Beatty, Meg Day, and Douglas Kearney (Essay Press, 2016), a collection of interviews from his poetry podcast Radio Free Albion. His other books include, most recently, Inside the Walls of My Own House (BlazeVOX, 2016), The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 1 (BlazeVOX, 2014), White Noise (Apostrophe Books, 2013), and, as editor, Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments (Ahsahta Press, 2014).

He also is the author of the poetry collections Historic Diary (BlazeVOX, 2011) and The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006); the chapbooks With the Memory, Which is Enormous (Main Street Rag Press, 2009) and Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry (Scantily Clad Press, 2008); and two books of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) and "Strange Prophecies Anew" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited the anthology, Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008).

His poems have been anthologized widely, in The Best American Poetry (Scribner 2023), Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry (Third World Press, 2022), The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), Poems Dead and Undead (Knopf/Everyman's Library, 2014), and Obsessions: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century (Dartmouth College Press, 2014), among others.