Jack Ridl is a multiple-award-winning poet from western Michigan whose latest book is Practicing to Walk Like a Heron (Wayne State U. Press, 2013). HisLosing Season—about an entire small town suffering through the dismal performance of its high school basketball team—was named 2009’s best book about sports. Poet laureate Billy Collins chose his Against Elegies for a chapbook award. Editor of many poetry anthologies, Jack is retired from Hope College.  He is one of Michigan’s most important working poets.

Hands by Jack Ridl (at Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac)

Hardship In A Nice Place by Jack Ridl (from Rattle)

Jack Ridl at Ted Talks