Torch Lake and Other Poems a Finalist for Norma Farber First Book Award

Brian Johnson's Torch Lake and Other Poems, recently released by Del Sol Press, has been named a finalist for the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Johnson, formerly an editor with The Prose Poem: An International Journal, has published his poems and prose poems in many journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Quarter After Eight, Eclipse, and West Branch. His poetry will appear in the forthcoming anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem, and his collaboration with the German painter Burghard Müller-Dannhausen will be exhibited at the M. Beck Gallery in Homburg/Saar, Germany, in 2010.