Roy White

Roy White is a blind person who lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with a lovely human and an affable lab mix. His work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, BOAAT Journal, the Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader for the Adroit Journal. He can be found on Twitter at @surrealroy.

Reading List

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Roy White  | 
Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

When the guy walked in wearing only swim fins and a narwhal codpiece it gave my Aunt Abigail the shock of her life, though she knew he was probably harmless as a jar of pickled herring. She’d always worried too much about fish, about everything, really, to do with the sea or even tap water. […]

Two-Way Mirror

Roy White  | 
Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

He wants to know, this Dustin on Facebook, how I get through the day. I want to write, “These days of murky winter, it’s a challenge just to recognize the day. If the alarm hasn’t gone off, I tap the talking clock to find out if it’s morning or insomnia that’s roused me. I get […]