Richard Wakefield

Richard Wakefield is an American poet, and literary critic. He has taught at the University of Washington Tacoma, and The Evergreen State College. He currently teaches at Tacoma Community College. and has also served as a visiting instructor/guest lecturer in the field of economics at Salem State University.

Wakefield is a poetry critic for the Seattle Times. His work has appeared in American Literature, Sewanee Review, Midwest Quarterly, Light, Seattle Review, Atlanta Review, Tampa Review, Neovictorian, Bellowing Ark, andEdge City Review.

He lives in Federal Way, Washington, with his wife and their two daughters.

• 2006 Richard Wilbur Award (For his East of Early Winters: poems, poetry anthology)
• 2009 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

• Robert Frost and the Opposing Lights of the Hour, Peter Lang Publishing, 1985'
• East of Early Winters: poems, University of Evansville Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-930982-63-8
• A Vertical Mile: poems, Able Muse Press, 2012'