Kyle G. Dargan
Kyle Dargan is an associate professor and assistant director of creative writing at American University in Washington, DC. His latest poetry collection, Anagnorisis, which was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018, was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and was longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Reading List
For the Man Who Caught My Father
when he lilted—lost in fainting—and careened off the bar stool. Dear Catcher, Dear Hands, I pray you know this is no samestory about a dad and liquor. You know something about my father even I do not: his weight in plummet, and the force necessary to keep his shoulders from plowing into the floor or […]
Book of Ruth
1.2 There were horses once in Weequahic Park. I cannot fathom their rippling chassis charging around the now-paved half-mile oval, but this is true for many things Grandma Ruth recounted about old Newark. My deficient imagination. Or my mind trained to see the city as I found it—one riot worse for wear. She always spoke […]