John Bargowski

John Bargowski’s new book is American Chestnut (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022). His first book Driving West on the Pulaski Skyway, selected by Paul Mariani for the Bordighera Prize, appeared in 2012. His poems also appear on Poetry Daily and in the Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others.

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Foul Rift

John Bargowski  | 
Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

That day, we drove a different road home after crossing the Belvedere bridge, winding down the river past a small farm where a sign sold fresh brown eggs then across a plank road over a marshy culvert near a pull-off where swimmers were loading their pickup with truck tubes they’d dragged onto […]