 His new and selected poetry collection, "The House on Boulevard St." ("Louisiana State University Press"), was nominated for the 2007 National Book Award in poetry.Kirby has published over 20 books, including collections of poetry, and literary criticism, and his poems frequently appear in "The Southern Review".His collected earlier poems, up to the transitional "Big-Leg Music," have been published as "I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay."