Bernardo Wade

Bernardo Wade

About Bernardo Wade

Bernardo Wade is an American poet born and raised in New Orleans. He tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, wanders around the Bay—occasionally on Stanford’s campus as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Awarded the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, the 2023 Third Coast Poetry Prize, & the Academy of American Poet's Vera Strube Poetry Prize, he has words in The Nation, The Sewanee Review, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Southern Review, Ecotone, & elsewhere. Previously the Editor of Indiana Review, he now serves as Assistant Editor and Poetry Editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. & though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of, they remain proud of him, especially when they are featured in the poems. His first full-length poetry collection, A Love Tap, is forthcoming from Lookout Books of UNC Wilmington. He's infatuated with Ed Roberson's question, "Can you O.D. on life?”
Awarded the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, the 2023 Third Coast Poetry Prize, & the Academy of American Poet's Vera Strube Poetry Prize, he has words in The Nation, The Sewanee Review, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Southern Review, Ecotone, & elsewhere.

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