On the Third Planet from the Sun: New and Selected Poems

Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet and writer whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Latin American Literature Today, Amsterdam Quarterly, Verse Wisconsin, Foundling Review, Twist in Time, Tipton Poetry Journal, New Purlieu Review, Free Verse, Poetica Review, Moss Piglet, Life and Legends, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Verse Virtual, Blue Heron Speaks, Your Daily Poem, Blue Heron Review, as well as in numerous other print and online journals. He was the recipient of the First Place Award in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets 2005 Triad Contest, and he received an Honorable Mention in the WFOP’s 2016 Chapbook Contest. Many of his poems have been featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM Lake Effect Program. Anderson is the author of three chapbooks, as well as three full-length collections with Kelsay Books: In the Garden of Angels and Demons (2017), The Dream Angel Plays the Cello (2019), and High Wire (2021). In the summer of 2013, six of his poe