Anthony Opal

Anthony Opal (born 1983) is an American poet and editor. The author of ACTION, and founding editor of The Economy, his work has appeared in various magazines and journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and Notre Dame Review.

An important contributor to the contemporary sonnet form, Opal's poems are process based with a Surrealistic bent toward subversiveness, specifically regarding categories of the holy and the profane. "Opal's adroit and contemplative poems don’t only fuck with ideas of the holy, they seek them out," writes Douglas Kearney. Likewise, in an interview for The Conversant, Luke Fidler describes Opal's work as not only juxtaposing images and formal elements, but "modes of experience, of remembering, of anticipating."

Opal holds a BA in English Literature from Elmhurst College and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Northwestern University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Chicago.