Lance Larsen

Lance Larsen is an American poet. In 2012 he became the Poet Laureate of Utah.

Life
Larsen holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He teaches at Brigham Young University, where he is the director of English Graduate Studies. He is married to artist Jacqui Larsen.

His poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Threepenny Review, Southern Review, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Reason and Belief.

Recognition
Larsen won the 2004 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. He has received several other awards, including a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Sewanee, Writers at Work, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston.

I April, 2012, Larsen was appointed the Poet laureate of Utah for a five-year term.

Publications

 * Erasable Walls. New Issues, 1998.
 * In All Their Animal Brilliance. University of Tampa Press, 2004.
 * Backyard Alchemy. University of Tampa Press, 2009.