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Trent Busch [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Lake Park, GA
Georgia US
Email: 
ctbusch@bellsouth.net
Bio: 

BIO Trent Busch is a native of rural West Virginia who now lives in Georgia where he makes furniture. His poems have appeared in many journals including The Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Nation, Threepenny Review, North American Review, Chicago Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Northwest Review, Kenyon Review, American Scholar, Shenandoah, and more recently in Notre Dame Review, Evansville Review, Agni Online, Boston Review, Natural Bridge, Sou’wester, Poetry Daily, and The Hudson Review. His goal in all his poetry is to write what is true.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Faulkner, Larry McMurtry
Born in: 
Brohard, WV
West Virginia
Raised in: 
Brohard, WV
West Virginia
Prizes won: 

 

Poem "Bookcase" was published in Poetry Daily, May 20, 2015

 

Poem "Edges of Roads" was the First Place Winner of the 2016 Margaret Reid Poetry Prize, Published by Winning Writers.  To read the poem and see the video of it on Winning Writers go to Winning Writers at the following site: https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-... [2].

 

Poem "Aletha" won an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Margaret Reid Poetry Prize, published by Winning Writers.  To read the poem, go to Winning Writers at the following site: https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-... [3]

What I'm reading now: 
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Identifies as: 
English American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/trent_busch

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/trent_busch [2] https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entrie/edges-of-roads [3] https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/aletha