Austin Araujo
Austin Araujo is a writer from northwest Arkansas. Currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University, his poems appear or are forthcoming in Memorious, The Rumpus, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Four Way Review, and others.
Reading List
At the Park on the Edge of the White River
My brother’s breath stops when he sleeps— his rest is not rest—which means this moment we’ve taken to talk, just the two of us, suffers beneath the filmy layer of his exhaustion. His eyes gaze down, shoulders curving toward each other like it takes work for him to hold his chest together. The boat of […]
Within Earshot of 1991
The scene isn’t too hard for us to see: a short white girl with bright orange curls, socket wrench in hand, “Little Red Corvette,” on cassette and blasting. Her car a metaphor for a horse, a Mustang, that she’s maintained for at least three years now. Brooke has too much denim on and a light […]