Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo’s latest book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, was awarded the 2010 Donald Justice Prize and the 2012 Poets’ Prize. Lives of the Sleepers received the Ernest Sandeen Prize and a ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal; Galileo’s Banquet shared the Towson University Prize. A selection of poems based on the paintings of Nora Sturges appears in the 2012 Avatar Review, and variations on poems by Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rilke, Rimbaud, Trakl, and Valéry are out or forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Bluestem, Evansville Review, String Poet, Unsplendid, and elsewhere. He is co-winner of the 2013 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.