“These poems are beautifully shaped, and written with such verve that they finally become a dark, unswerving music of self-discovery.  The subjects are varied – from a night time constellation to a salmon run. What is constant is the level of craft and care, and the eloquence of feeling which shines out of this distinguished debut collection.”
     -- Eavan Boland, author of Domestic Violence

“John Struloeff writes solid, sonorous lines. He knows work and has respect for work. He doesn't need to mystify you with fancy footwork. He locks into the struggle it is to be a man.  I put him in the great tradition of Philip Levine and Richard Hugo.”
    -- Howard Junker, ZYZZYVA

“John Struloeff’s poems bear witness with unsentimental tenderness and sober respect to the community of loggers and fishermen of the Northwest, men making difficult lives out of a natural world whose spiritual power they contact only as they destroy it.” 
   -- Donald G. Marshall, The Poetry Foundation

"A poet to watch." 
   -- John R. Guthrie, Harvard Square Commentary

"John Struloeff’s extended nature metaphors give poignancy to verse detailing loss." 
   -- NewPages.com

John Struloeff

STEGNER FELLOW, 2005-2007 STANFORD UNIVERSITY

2009 NEA LITERATURE FELLOW

FINALIST FOR SIX NATIONAL POETRY BOOK COMPETITIONS .

Individual poems first published in
The Atlantic Monthly
The Southern Review
ZYZZYVA
Prairie Schooner
Rattle
Open Spaces Magazine
War, Literature & the Arts
Rosebud Magazine
and many others...