John Canaday

John Canaday’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Raritan, Slate, The Paris Review, Poetry Daily, The Hudson Review, and The New Republic, among numerous other journals and anthologies. His first book of poems, The Invisible World, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His other awards include a New Millennium Poetry Prize and fellowships in both poetry and playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His one act, Trinity: A Play with Five Voices, was produced by Derek Walcott at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. His scholarly writing has appeared in Isis, Social Text, American Writers, Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future, and The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World. He is also the author of a critical study, The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. He has been a Watson Fellow in England, a Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, and a tutor to the Royal Family in Jordan.