Max Ritvo

Max Ritvo (1990-2016) is generally acknowledged to have been one of the finest poets of his generation. Max Ritvo's debut collection, "Four Reincarnations," came out in September 2016 with Milkweed Editions. He was awarded a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook, AEONS. His poetry has also appeared in the New Yorker, POETRY, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. Ritvo's eight poem sampler in Boston Review, introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido, was named as one of their...See more

Max Ritvo (1990-2016) is generally acknowledged to have been one of the finest poets of his generation. Max Ritvo's debut collection, "Four Reincarnations," came out in September 2016 with Milkweed Editions. He was awarded a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook, AEONS. His poetry has also appeared in the New Yorker, POETRY, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. Ritvo's eight poem sampler in Boston Review, introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido, was named as one of their top 20 poetry selections published in 2015. He was a poetry editor at Parnassus: Poetry in Review and a teaching fellow at Columbia University. Max's prose and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Huffington Post, Divedapper, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His radio appearances include NPR's Only Human, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and The Dr. Drew Podcast. See less