Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar is the 2016 winner of Red Hen Press’ Benjamin Saltman Prize, for his forthcoming Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining. His The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising), and Voodoo Inverso, won UMass Press’ Juniper Prize & U of Wisconsin Press’ Pollak Prize, respectively. He has also won the James Wright Prize and the Pablo Neruda Prize. His poems have appeared or will in TheNew Yorker, Tin House, Missouri Review, Field and Southern Review. He is currently serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Valparaiso University.
Reading List
Auramancy
—divination by auras It’s Johnny Cash on the little boombox I carry as we climb the grain silo ladders to get a bird’s eye view of the town, of our dozen streets, then the father hen will call his chickens …
Noir Nocturne (Small Town Impromptu)
Evening light steals in amongst the tulips like a pickpocket’s hunger. Grain in the streets, Midwest goldrush, tractors towing in trailers piled high, long wains shaking their way in. Half a horse shy of being a one horse town. One …