I’m so grateful to editor Sarah George-Waterfield and the others at The arolina Quarterly, a journal that has been dear to me for years, for including three poems of mine in the newest issue, along with Benjamin Cherif-Goldberg (my regular issue-mate) and my good friend and fiction phenom Peter Kispert. Peter’s story and my poems are next to each other in the issue too, as if the editors could intuitively feel the love.
The openings of each poems are below. I hope you enjoy and are so inclined to pick up the issue to read the full poems (along with work by many other super-talented writers) and support a top notch literary journal.