Eric Baus

Eric Baus is the author of five books of poetry: How I Became a Hum (Octopus Books, 2020) The Tranquilized Tongue, (City Lights Books 2014), Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), and The To Sound, winner of the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004). He is also the author of several chapbooks, most recently The Rain Of The Ice (Above/Ground Press 2014) and Euphorbia (Above/Ground Press 2019). His poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish. He is a graduate of the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver as well as the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has taught in universities and community learning spaces for the past two decades. 

Eric’s approach to writing and teaching poetry celebrates discovery and surprise. He has worked in intergenerational spaces and with ELL learners in universities and community spaces for the past two decades. He is fascinated by writing that dismantles habitual patterns of understanding in order to make meaning and attend to sound in new ways. His areas of interest include prose poetry, epistolary forms, the serial poem, and surrealism.