Robert Wood Lynn
Robert Wood Lynn’s debut poetry collection Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022) was selected by Rae Armantrout for the 2021 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. His work has been featured in Antioch Review, Blackbird, New Ohio Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other publications. He is an MFA student at New York University where he teaches in the undergraduate creative-writing program. He lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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Plot Synopsis
There was a bird that feasted on your dreams and another that subsisted on the lies you told and every afternoon these birds would fight for the entertainment of most of the guys we went to high school with. Now you might think such bloodsport would be hidden in warehouse basements but it was held […]
The First Lie
The scientists went searching to find the first-ever lie, which, on account of how lies barnacle forever to the bottom of things, was believed to be hidden in Antarctic pack ice, somewhere off the Lassiter coast. This turned out itself to be a lie— not the original lie just a regular one of no cultural […]
On My Way Home from the Hospital
Cold night аfter a long day looking after my tenses, careful. Late December, though not late enough to turn this drizzle to snow. In the glow outside the ShopRite, this lady in a puffy coat puts, is putting, is trying to put a twenty-dollar bill back in her wallet, easy thing made hard by gloves […]