The man in line at the grocery store in Centralia, Missouri
has a face like a confession. It says, I have come here to buy cheap bread and milk for this herd...
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Justin Hamm
Justin Hamm is the author of a full-length collection of poems, Lessons in Ruin, and two poetry chapbooks. His work has appeared in Nimrod, The Midwest Quarterly, Cream City Review, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. Recent work also been selected for New Poetry From the Midwest and The Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award from the St. Louis Poetry Center.
Justin Hamm is the author of a full-length collection of poems, Lessons in Ruin, and two poetry chapbooks. His work has appeared in Nimrod, The Midwest Quarterly, Cream City Review, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. Recent work also been selected for New Poetry From the Midwest and The Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award from the St. Louis Poetry Center.
Posts by Justin Hamm
Days Like This
Mama told me there would be a great battle called Ragnarok, that I would be its lone survivor. She...
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I Take Forty-Five Minutes to Shoot a Portrait of My Father
My father standing here now standing over there now turning his patient face first left and then...
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First Lesson in Meat, 1984
They crash through the ratty screen door, all gunflash and colorful beer cans. Five men, blood or...
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The Everyday Parade
But of course the damned old pickup won’t start again, and they miss the marching bands in their...
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