Kyle McCord

Kyle McCord is the author of five books of poetry including National Poetry Series Finalist Magpies in the Valley of Oleanders (Trio House 2016). His work has been featured in The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, and The Kenyon Review. He serves as Co-Executive Editor of Gold Wake Press and lives in Des Moines, Iowa where he teaches at Drake University.

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Drawing Whistler’s Mother

Kyle McCord  | 
Issue 67.1 Fall 2018

After Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, 1871 He began in black mimicking the Thames frozen and dark in the locks where the jewelweed stilled as though wind itself could sleep inside a portrait without time without teasing those green …