The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and

Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize

Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a ch

Spooky light-verse poems featuring otherworldly creatures and things: witches and warlocks, the 'Creeping Crud' and a cannibal's fingery fondue, fictional chara

In Dear Ghosts, the ghosts of the past are conjured and communed with as part of the poet's present day: the deceased beloved, the father long dead, the ailing