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, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Lannan Literary Award and was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist. 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.

Arthur Sze is a treasure and a beacon of a poet, whose indispensable body of work offers no less than ‘a way to navigate this world’. As wise as it is beguiling, Into the Hush reminds me of George Eliot’s ‘roar which lies on the other side of silence’. These poems lead us through the intermeshing worlds of matter and spirit, science and instinct, to touch the beating heart of things. ‘[H]ere is the anvil on which to hammer your days–’: I, for one, am ready to accept the invitation, the challenge.

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, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Lannan Literary Award and was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist. 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.

Arthur Sze is a treasure and a beacon of a poet, whose indispensable body of work offers no less than ‘a way to navigate this world’. As wise as it is beguiling, Into the Hush reminds me of George Eliot’s ‘roar which lies on the other side of silence’. These poems lead us through the intermeshing worlds of matter and spirit, science and instinct, to touch the beating heart of things. ‘[H]ere is the anvil on which to hammer your days–’: I, for one, am ready to accept the invitation, the challenge.