Bill Yarrow

Poet

Lincolnwood, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
bill.yarrow@gmail.com
Website: 
billyarrow.wordpress.com
Twitter/X: 
@billyarrow

Author's Bio

I am a Professor of English at Joliet Junior College. I am the author of ACCELERANT (Nixes Mate Books 2019), AGAINST PROMPTS (Lit Fest Press 2018), THE VIG OF LOVE (Glass Lyre Press 2016), BLASPHEMER (Lit Fest Press 2015), POINTED SENTENCES (BlazeVOX 2012) and five chapbooks, We All Saw It Coming (Locofo Chaps 2017), The Lice of Christ (MadHat Press 2014), Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cervena Barva Press 2014), FOURTEEN (Naked Mannekin 2011), and WRENCH (erbacce-press 2009).

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Eastern Iowa Review: Best Lyric Prose Plus Anthology (Port Yonder Press, 2019)
,
Shut Down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels (Bone & Ink Press, 2019)
,
Aeolian Harp: Volume One (Glass Lyre Press, 2016)
,
This Is Poetry: Volume II: The Midwest Poets (Citizens for Decent Literature Press, 2015)
,
Beginnings: How 14 Poets Got Their Start (Serving House Books, 2015)
,
Sculptures: The Great Columns of Joliet (University of Illinois Press, 2006)
Books:
ACCELERANT (Nixes Mate Books, 2019)
,
AGAINST PROMPTS (Lit Fest Press, 2018)
,
THE VIG OF LOVE (Glass Lyre Press, 2016)
,
BLASPHEMER (Lit Fest Press, 2015)
,
POINTED SENTENCES (BlazeVOX books, 2012)
Chapbooks:
WE ALL SAW IT COMING (Locofo Chaps, 2017)
,
THE LICE OF CHRIST (MadHat Press, 2014)
,
INCOMPETENT TRANSLATIONS AND INEPT HAIKU (Cervena Barva Press, 2013)
,
WRENCH (erbacce-press, 2009)
Journals:
A-Minor Magazine
,
After Hours
,
Alephi
,
Altered Scale
,
Angelic Dynamo
,
Antigonish Review
,
Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal
,
Atticus Review
,
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
,
Berkeley Poets Co-op
,
BLIP
,
blossombones
,
Blue Fifth Review
,
Cabaret Voltage Online
,
Camroc Press Review
,
Caravel Literary Arts Journal
,
Central Park
,
Chicago Literati
,
Children Churches & Daddies
,
Chiron Review
,
Confrontation
,
Connotation Press
,
Contrary
,
Corium Magazine
,
Counterexample Poetics
,
Crack the Spine
,
Del Sol Review
,
Diagram
,
Dirty Chai
,
Ditch
,
DuPage Arts Life
,
Eastern Iowa Review
,
Ekphrastic Review
,
Eratio Poetry Journal
,
Erbacce
,
Eunoia Review
,
Everyday Genius
,
Exact Change Only
,
Extract(s)
,
Festival Writer
,
First Literary Review-East
,
Five 2 One Magazine
,
Frigg Magazine
,
Fulcrum
,
Full of Crow
,
Fwriction : Review
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
Ginosko Literary Journal
,
Gloom Cupboard
,
Good Men Project
,
Hayotzer
,
HCE Review
,
Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal
,
Home Planet News
,
Humanities Opposition World League
,
In the Red
,
Into the Void
,
Iodine Poetry Journal
,
Isacoustic
,
Istanbul Literary Review
,
JMWW
,
Lady Jane's Miscellany
,
Levure Litteraire
,
Literary Orphans
,
Literary Review
,
Litsnack
,
Little Eagle RE/VERSE
,
Lost In Thought
,
Mad Hatters' Review
,
MadHat Lit
,
Magma
,
Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation
,
Many Mountains Moving
,
Metazen
,
Midstream
,
MiPOesias
,
MockingHeart Review
,
Mojave River Review
,
Montucky Review
,
Moria
,
Moss Trill
,
Muddy River Poetry Review
,
Muse Apprentice Guild
,
Negative Suck
,
New Aesthetic
,
New World Writing
,
Nixes Mate Review
,
Now Culture
,
Of Zoos
,
Olentangy Review
,
One Sentence Poems
,
Orange Room Review
,
Otoliths
,
OVS Magazine
,
Packingtown Review
,
Pank
,
Peacock Journal
,
Pif Magazine
,
Pirene's Fountain
,
Poem
,
Poeticdiversity
,
Poetry International
,
Poetry Super Highway
,
Poets and Artists
,
Prick of the Spindle
,
Ragazine
,
Ramshackle Review
,
Red Fez
,
Reprint Poetry
,
RHINO
,
Right Hand Pointing
,
Rio Grande Review
,
Santa Fe Literary Review
,
scissors & spackle
,
Sententia
,
Short, Fast and Deadly
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Skidrow Penthouse
,
Sonic Boom
,
Spectrum
,
Staxtes
,
The Balloon
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The Centrifugal Eye
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The Jewish Journal
,
The Linnet's Wings
,
The Miscreant
,
The Poetry Storehouse
,
The Zen Space
,
Third Wednesday
,
THIS Literary Magazine
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Thrice Fiction
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THRUSH Poetry Journal
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Thunderclap! Magazine
,
Toasted Cheese
,
Toe Good
,
Treehouse
,
Truck
,
twenty20 Journal
,
Unlikely Stories
,
Unlost
,
Uno Kudo
,
Up the Staircase Quarterly
,
Used Furniture Review
,
Van Gogh's Ear
,
Whale Sound
,
Wilderness House Literary Review
,
Ygdrasil
Prizes won: 

“After the Shark” nominated for a 1982 Pushcart Prize by Central Park and cited as an Outstanding Poem in Pushcart Prize VIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1984.
Academy of American Poets Competition, First Prize, Judge: Galway Kinnell, Swarthmore College, 1973.
Academy of American Poets competition, First Prize, Judge: Mark Strand, Swarthmore College, 1971.

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Dec 10, 2019