Eric Janken

Eric Janken's poetry has been in Southern Cultures, Regarding Arts & Letters and Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature. His interviews and reviews have appeared in Carolina Quarterly. He is a graduate of Appalachian State University.
Reading List
Elegy for the Von Erich Family
Once I had five brothers, now I’m not even a brother – Kevin Von Erich Friday nights, old ladies banged handbags against wobbled steel girders that flaked yellow paint. You could taste the Fabulous Freebirds’ sweat as they strutted down …