SUMMER TOURS!
JUNE 1-11 THE SOUTH WITH NATIONALS FINALIST DENISE JOLLY
JUNE 12-20 CHICAGO WITH POET AND ORGANIZER JESSICA LOHAFER
Ryler Dustin has captivated audiences across the U.S. with his quietly explosive love poems. Inhabiting the space between sleeptalk and science, his work contains angels who write graffiti prayer lists, an old man who plants orchards in a stranger's chest, and early humans who trek across Ice Age tundra, carrying the secret of how we have made it this far.
His attention to craft and sincere, humorous performances have earned him recognition within both slam and academic poetry circles, and he's headlined at venues from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe to Washington State University. A finalist in the Individual World Poetry Slam, Ryler has won the Sue C Boynton award and the Bart Baxter Poetry Contest. He recently received his second Pushcart nomination.
"Ryler Dustin is hands down the most exciting young poet I have encountered in ten years of coast-to-coast travels through the poetry underground. His assurance is astonishing. He knows exactly when to be oracular and when to be funny, and exactly how funny to be (often, very). You'll find him telling you truths, like all great poets, that he has no right to know." - Jack McCarthy, official Poetry Slam legend
"For the first time I actually liked a poem." - Dallas Quick, Mrs. Nichol's Eight Grade Class
The acclaimed HEAVY LEAD BIRDSONG is available for purchase from WriteBloody.com/store, Amazon, Domi, Brazos Books and Fairhaven Books.
