About
Todd Boss grew up on an 80-acre cattle farm in west central Wisconsin, where he helped his parents in garden, pasture, field, and forest.
Todd Boss’s poetry debut, Yellowrocket (W. W. Norton, 2008), will be followed by Pitch (Norton) in February 2012.
Todd’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The London Times, The New Yorker, NPR, and Best American Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review, which called Yellowrocket “one of the year’s 10 best poetry books” and awarded Todd the Emily Clark Balch Prize. Yellowrocket was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and was named a Midwest Booksellers’ Honor Book for Poetry.
His first libretto, Panic, a verse retelling of Knut Hamsun’s Pan, will premiere in Fall 2012, as an evening-length piece composed by Boston Conservatory’s Andy Vores.
Todd is a co-founding co-director of Motionpoems, a new poetry film initiative currently collaborating with Scribner’s Best American Poetry.
Todd lives in north suburban Saint Paul with his wife and children.
There is a burdened, struggling, imprisoned quality about much contemporary poetry from which Todd Boss seems a star-kissed escapee.
– Jack Miles
