Hair of the Dog

Hair of the Dog, edited by poet Christopher Howell, is the second installment of The Acme Poem Company’s Zodiac Poetry Anthology Series. Hair of the Dog contains work collected from regional and national poets alike, setting them side by side to pay homage to “man’s best friend.” It features poems by Galway Kinnell, D. Nurkse, Ocean Vuong, Ilya Kamisnky, Paisley Reckdall, and the late Tony Hoagland.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Christopher Howell is author or editor of more than a dozen poetry collections including the forthcoming Grief of a Happy Life. He has received numerous honors including the Washington State Book Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust, and three Pushcart Prizes. A military journalist during the Vietnam War, he is director and principal editor for Lynx House Press and lives in Spokane, Washington, where he teaches in Eastern Washington University’s master of fine arts in creative writing program.