Author Archives | John Chavez
John Chávez is the author of the chapbook Heterotopia, published by Noemi Press, and a co-author of the collaborative chapbook I, NE: Iterations of the Junco, published by Small Fires Press. He earned an MFA from New Mexico State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His poetry has appeared in Cooper Nickel, Diode, Notre Dame Review, Puerto del Sol, Tusculum Review, The Laurel Review, Palabra, Pilgrimage, and Zone 3. His first, full-length collection City of Slow Dissolve (University of New Mexico Press, 2012) won the IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Medal for Poetry. He lives in Denver, Colorado, and teaches at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Weekly Poem: The Poet at Thirty-four—for Joseph Lease
We are we & when we are not we
the poet thinks we are a gun
in his head the poet thinks we are a rivulet in the forest
the poet thinks we are we
& when we are we we are a naked moonpearled night
& a child fishing thick shadows...
31. July 2014
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