B.H. Fairchild

B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet known for his evocative narratives of working-class life in the American Midwest, drawing from his upbringing in oil-field towns of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and his experience working in his father's machine shop. His most notable works include The Art of the Lathe (1998), a National Book Award finalist that won the Beatrice Hawley Award, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and William Carlos Williams Award, and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2003), recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; his latest book is An Ordinary Life (2023) Poets.org.