Denver Butson (USA)

DENVER BUTSON is an American poet who has published six books of poetry, has won numerous awards, and has had his work featured in the US on National Public Radio and the Library of Congress. His work in collaboration with visual artists, performing artists, and musicians has taken him to galleries, performance spaces, and stages across the US and Europe. A collection of his work with musicians, The Etcetera Variations, features some of the poetry he has performed with the likes of Mat Maneri, Marco Cappelli, Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez, and Marc Ribot. In 2024, he was a featured poet at PEN Georgia’s 9th Annual Tbilisi International Festival of Literature. National Award winning novelist Colum McCann says that Butson’s poems “knock our comfortable balance all to hell, and then help stitch our imaginations back together again.” He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.