Arts
Walter E. Butts, the 2009-2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate, is the author of RadioTime (forthcoming from Cherry Grove), Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe`, whichwas chosen as a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and selected winner of the2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize, and several chapbooks, including What to Say ifthe Birds Ask (Pudding House, 2007) and Sunday Factory (Finishing Line Press, 2006).The recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations and a Massachusetts Artists FoundationAward, his poems have appeared recently in Café Review, Cider Press Review, The FourthRiver, Poetry East and Saranac Review, and the anthology The 2010 Poets’ Guide toNew Hampshire. He teaches in the low-residency BFA in Creative Writing Program atGoddard College.