November 2016
Poetry is a lonely business, but I have a friend who plays guitar, and when I play bass with him, I find community. My most recent book is In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013 and I've had recent poems in Hummingbird, Atticus Review, Hamilton Stone Review, and other literary magazines. I'm honored to serve as managing editor of the Lorine Niedecker Monograph Series, What Region?. I blog as The Middlewesterner (www.middlewesterner.com), and have put up at least five little poems a week since mid-2008.
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Prayer for a Friend to Send Him on His Way for Bob Schuster Bless this bag of bones, this sad sack of flesh, the spirit struggling to wear it. Lift up the light with- in him, which is him. Let him live now among the stars. |
©2016 Tom Montag
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