W. S. Di Piero is a poet, translator, and essayist whose poetry collections include Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems; Skirts and Slacks; and The Dog Star. His translation of Sandro Penna’s poems earned him the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Among his essay collections are Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures and Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art. Winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Di Piero lives in San Francisco and is a professor of English at Stanford University.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Only in Things , poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012