Greg Kuzma (born July 14, 1944 in Rome, New York) is an American poet, essayist, poetry reviewer, and editor,[1] who has written and published more than 30 books.
Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Albert Goldbarth, Wendell Berry, Alfred Starr Hamilton and Richard Shelton.
[7][1][2] Kuzma won the 1974 Theodore Roethke award for the best poem appearing that year in Poetry Northwest.
[9] According to the Poetry Foundation's biography, Kuzma is "known among writers and former students as a brilliant, mercurial spirit, likely to forget more poetry than most of us will ever know," Kuzma's long free-verse poems often investigate the frame of personal memory.
Kuzma has spoken about reading in the context of his experience as editor of a small press: “I am not even sure I believe in such a thing as good poetry.… There has not been a single poet, no matter how various my initial impressions, that has not brought something in me alive, to life, or sustained life.”[1] Greg Kuzma earned a BA and an MA at Syracuse University.