Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, editor and the current US Poet Laureate. His poetry has received several awards including the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement, the 2019 National Book Award, 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Lannan Literary Award. Sze is a chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets and was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, where he lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw.
Praise for Arthur Sze -- - * : * [Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience - astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism - and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness * New Yorker * This is a poetry of assemblage, where violence and beauty combine and hang on Sze’s particular gift for the leaping non sequitur — imagistic lines strung together by jump-cuts, creating a filmic collage that itself seems to be a portrait of simultaneity * New York Times *