May 4, 2025: Mark Wunderlich

Read KPS’s exclusive Interview with Mark Wunderlich, conducted by Ann van Buren.

I am in love with The God of Nothingness, which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness.—Diane Seuss

The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with its directness, humor, and pathos.—Publishers Weekly

Mark Wunderlich is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which is MATEY, forthcoming from Graywolf Press. His other titles include God of Nothingness (Graywolf Press 2021), The Earth Avails, (Graywolf Press 2014) which received the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas and which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf, 2004) and The Anchorage (UMass Press, 1999) which received the Lambda Literary Award. Wunderlich’s work has been published in over 30 anthologies including multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.

He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amy Lowell Trust, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and elsewhere. He is Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont, and he lives in New York’s Hudson Valley near the village of Catskill.