William Reichard

Writer, Editor, Educator

William Reichard's eighth poetry collection, In the Evening, will be published by Broadstone Books in Autumn 2024.

Reichard's previous poetry collections include:

Our Delicate Barricades Downed
(Broadstone Books, 2021) 

The Night Horse: New and Selected Poems
(Brighthorse Books, 2018)

Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity 
(Broadstone Books, 2016)

Sin Eater
(Mid-List Press, 2010)

This Brightness
(Mid-List Press, 2007)

How To
(Mid-List Press, 2004) was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets 

An Alchemy in the Bones
(New Rivers Press, 1999) won a MN Voices Prize. 

Poems from This Brightness and How To have been featured on NPR’s “Writers Almanac.” 

He has published two chapbooks, As Breath in Winter (MIEL Books, 2015); and To Be Quietly Spoken (Frith Press, 2001) and edited The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s: A Gay Life in the 1940’s (Univ. of MN Press, 2001). 

Reichard's anthology of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice, was published by New Village Press in April 2011.