Finalist 2020 Book Award in poetry

Tupelo Press, August 2020 | cover art, Mister Blick

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BOOK TRAILER

Virtual Reality Poem

Excerpts

Poem Excluding City,” Poetry Daily
Poem Excluding Fiction,” Poets.org
Poem Excluding Air Quotes,” Literary Hub
Poem Excluding Government,” Verse Daily
Poem Excluding Opposite Day,” The Brooklyn Rail
Poem Excluding Gun Control,” Diagram
Poem Excluding Modern Technology,” Poets & Writers

PRAISE

“These poems are fraught machines that crack and fizzle, that think deeply and resist the low ground, that come from a place of uncanny wildness and heft.”
Natalie Shapero, author of Popular Longing

“Falck invites us to see with more feeling, to grin with more bearing, to care like it can change us. ‘The heart is the most donated organ,’ he writes; in this book of absences, the heart is never missing.”
Zach Savich, author of Full Catastrophe Living

“Falck’s gloom’s a playful one, and his Exclusions creep into and around our midst in order to ask a little something of us. Gentle, but jarring, these poems let us in to where we are. The password is you.”
Graham Foust, author of Nightingalelessness

Exclusions keeps us off balance, stumbling forward, and absolutely alive with both the inventive possibilities of lyric poetry and that rare experience of watching the genre redefine itself in a pair of this art’s most capable hands.”
Michael McGriff, author of Eternal Sentences

reviews / interviews

Adroit Journal (review)
Kenyon Review (review)
Diagram (review)
Heavy Feather Review (review)
Full Stop (interview)
Neon Pajamas (interview)
Heavy Feather Review (interview)
Rob McLennan’s Blog (interview)
Largehearted Boy (playlist)
Buffalo Spree (article)
Stanford Daily (article)

recorded readings

Wednesday Night Poetry Series - August 5, 2020
Poetry Is Bread Series - May 30, 2020

Audio poems