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Brian Turner is an American poet and the winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for poetry.

From Fresno, California, Turner has seen his poems published in Poetry Daily, Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Georgia Review, Rattle, and ZYZZYVA. His poems have also appeared in the Voices in Wartime anthology. He received the Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, published by Alice James Books. Nickname: Fresno, the All American City & Raisin Capital of the World Location in the state of California County Fresno Government  - Mayor Alan Autry Area  - City 104. ...

Turner is an MFA graduate of the University of Oregon and a U.S. Army veteran. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq beginning November 2003, with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999 and 2000 he was with the 10th Mountain Division, deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Before his military service, Turner lived in South Korea for a year. The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina (also variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...

His book of war poems, Here, Bullet, was published in paperback by Alice James Books in 2005. (ISBN-10: 1882295552 ISBN-13: 978-1882295555) // Frank Bidart: Star Dust, one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year[1] Dan Chiasson: Natural History: Poems, one of the New York Times 100 Notable books of the year[1] Jorie Graham: Overlord: Poems, one of the New York Times 100 Notable books of the...

Honors and awards

• 2005: Beatrice Hawley Award
• 2006: Maine Literary Award in Poetry
• 2006: Northern California Book Award in Poetry
• 2006: Sheila Margaret Motten Award from the New England Poetry Club
• 2006: PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry
• 2006: Lannan Literary Fellowship

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Print resource

• Goodyear, Dana. "Ink: War Poet" (Talk of the Town). The New Yorker. Nov. 14, 2005. pg. 39.

The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ...

External links

• Interview with Brian Turner [1]
• New York Foundation for the Arts [2]
• "Talk of the Town" item in The New Yorker [3]
• Review of Turner in rhubarb is susan [4]
• Listen to Brian Turner read his poems at the online poetry archive From the Fishouse [5]