“You will read an unknown book in an abandoned library— a piano in a distant room—” by William Archila

William Archila is the winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his collection S is For. He is the author of The Art of Exile which was awarded the International Latino Book Award, and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology which received the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. He was also awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. He has been published in AGNl, APR, Copper Nickle, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, TriQuarterly and the anthologies Latino Poetry: The Library of American Anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. He has work forthcoming in Ploughshares and New Ohio Review.