Richard Siken (born 1967) is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. His first poetry collection, Crush (2005), was selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and went on to win a Lambda Literary Award and a Thom Gunn Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His later books include War of the Foxes (2015) and I Do Know Some Things (2025). For I Do Know Some Things, Siken was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.
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