Richard Newman (born March 25, 1966) is an American poet and editor [1]. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009), and Borrowed Towns[2], (Word Press, 2005).
Born in Illinois, raised in southern Indiana, and now living in St. Louis, Newman is the author of Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009) and Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005), and four poetry chapbooks: 24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times (Snark Publishing/Firecracker Press, 2007), Monster Gallery: 19 Terrifying and Amazing Monster Sonnets! (Snark Publishing, 2005), Tastes Like Chicken and Other Meditations (Snark Publishing, 2004), and Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 2001).
His work has most recently appeared in Best American Poetry 2006 [3] (edited by Billy Collins), Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry [4], Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac[5], Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, New Letters, (where he won the 2006 Reader's Choice Award), Poetry Daily [6], The Sun, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily[7] [8], as well as many other periodicals and anthologies.
Newman earned his MFA at the Brief-Residency Writing Program at Spalding University. He teaches at St. Louis Community College and Washington University, reviews books for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and, for the last fifteen years, has served as editor for River Styx.