Dan Lewis (1946 – 2017) lived on the edge of Patch Reservoir and is the 2012 Winner of The Frank O’Hara Prize. He published four collections of poetry: Tickets for the Broken Year and The Garden in 2011, Iconospheres in 2013, and Intimations of the Focal Plane in 2016.
Lewis was awarded the WCPA’s Stanley Kunitz Medal in 2016. He was an active volunteer member of the WCPA Board of Directors for over twenty years. In this capacity, he regularly designed and produced broadsides for other poets and published many editions of The Issue. He served as typesetting and design editor of The Worcester Review from 1999-2011.





