John Casteen
John Casteen’s books, Free Union (2009) and For the Mountain Laurel (2011), are part of the VQR Poetry Series from the University of Georgia Press. His poems have appeared recently in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and other magazines, and in Best American Poetry. He teaches at Sweet Briar College.
Reading List
Passage
John Casteen– Passage Bollard & bulkhead, cormorant & clew, spindrift, scene: the pitchkettle Tropic of Capricorn. The city. The sea in its unsurprising windrows; the glyph of the break- water. Each wintry glimpse, scene briny as a mollusk. Clear-lined and …