Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone's novella, This Darksome Burn, is available from Queen's Ferry Press. His debut collection of short fiction, Good People, is forthcoming in 2014 from Foxhead Books. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, and The Mississippi Review, and has received honors from ESPN: The Magazine. Nick can be found online at www.nickripatrazone.com. His “Cribbing Collar” received honorable mention in this year’s Bevel Summers Contest.
Reading List
The Cribbing Collar
Click to hear Nick Ripatrazone read “The Cribbing Collar” Boone came home from Fort Bragg with tattoos, and a girl named Sara. Her short blonde hair was tucked behind her ears. Long, thin earrings trailed to her collarbone. Boone pulled …
A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Pieces
A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz (Akron, 2012) by Nick Ripatrazone Dislocated Identities, Found Personas Edward Hirsch notes that persona poetry originates “in archaic …
The Glass Crib by Amanda Auchter
Nick Ripatrazone The Glass Crib by Amanda Auchter. Zone 3 Press, 2011. “There is no pain but the bodily”: so begins “The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa,” the final in a sequence of saint-themed poems in The Glass Crib, Amanda Auchter’s …