David Bottoms’s numerous poetry collections include Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award, We Almost Disappear, and Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). He coedited The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, and is also the author of two novels. Most notable among his many prizes is an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Bottoms lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter and holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. For twelve years he served as the Poet Laureate of Georgia.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Wood Shop, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2019–2020
- Maintenance and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2020
- Two Poems, poetry, in Winter 2012
- Four Poems, poetry, in Winter 2009