John Blair‘s poetry collection Playful Song Called Beautiful was the 2015 winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Iowa Press this last April. He’s also published five other books, including two poetry collections, The Occasions of Paradise (U. Tampa Press, 2012) & The Green Girls (Pleiades Press, 2003). He has published poems with various magazines, including Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and New Letters.