George Bradley

George Bradley is the author of six books of verse (most recently, A Stroll in the Rain: New & Selected Poems, 2021) and the editor of The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1997). The recipient of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other awards, he has worked variously as a sommelier, an editor, and a copywriter, as well as in construction. Currently he imports and distributes a brand of olive oil from Italy (La Bontà di Fiesole). When not overseas, he lives mostly in Chester, near the river of rivers in Connecticut.
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