I hold my breath
I hold my breath driving between the empty auto plant and cemetery where two maples rise over the...
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Mark Neely
Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill (winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize) and Dirty Bomb, both from Oberlin College Press. He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Indiana Individual Artist’s Grant, and his poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Boulevard, Willow Springs and elsewhere. He teaches at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill (winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize) and Dirty Bomb, both from Oberlin College Press. He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Indiana Individual Artist’s Grant, and his poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Boulevard, Willow Springs and elsewhere. He teaches at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Posts by Mark Neely
Life and Memory
Setting detail is sometimes relegated to the background of a poem, perceived as mere “atmosphere,”...
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I jump down from my soapbox
I jump down from my soapbox like Jay Bennett leaping off his Marshall stack at the Titanic Love...
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