Jaswinder Bolina

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Jaswinder Bolina's fourth full-length collection English as a Second Language and Other Poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in September 2023. Hisdebut collection of essays Of Color (2020) is available now from McSweeney's. His previous books include the poetry collections The 44th of July (Omnidawn 2019), which was long-listed for the 2019 PEN America Open Book Award; Phantom Camera, winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry from New Issues Press; Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry from the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University; and the digital chapbook The Tallest Building in America (Floating Wolf Quarterly 2014). An international edition of Phantom Camera is available from Hachette India. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and been included in The Best American Poetry series. 

His essays can be found at The Washington Post, Paris ReviewShenandoah, Poetry Foundation dot org,and other venues. They have also appeared in anthologies including the 14th edition of The Norton Reader (W.W. Norton & Company 2016), Language: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2013), and Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press 2011).

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2011

Pushcart (Poetry) 2018*

Best American Essays 2021*

* indicates notable/special mention

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