Gary J. Whitehead

Gary J. Whitehead’s third book of poems, A Glossary of Chickens (Princeton), was published in 2013. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The New Criterion and Measure.

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Returning to Iowa

Gary J. Whitehead  | 
Issue 64.2 Spring 2015

Above the just cut field martins darted through the dusty air, diminishing astonishingly the swarms of gnats and moths orbiting the great round bales, which sat in their warm compactness like cakes on racks. Shadows grinned on the unsunned …

Heat Lightning

Gary J. Whitehead  | 
Issue 64.2 Spring 2015

The whole drive home it split the swart-browed sky like the forked veins of my forehead – root rents, rhizomes of light and associations. Clouds of musings now – why I’m reminded of rains I wished would come and …