W.F. Lantry received his Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice, and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Recent honors include the National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry, CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize, Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), Atlanta Review International Publication Prize and 2012 Potomac Review Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Descant, Asian Cha, THIS Literary Magazine and Aesthetica. The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press 2011), is his lyric retelling of Attar’s Conference of the Birds. He currently works in Washington, DC, and is a contributing editor of Umbrella Journal.

• Poetry : Next Morning Letter
• Poetry : A Bridge of Magpies

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