David Bruzina was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He has degrees in English and philosophy from Macalester College, UNC-Greensboro, Virginia Tech, and Ohio University, and currently teaches reading and writing at the University of South Carolina at Aiken. He also directs the “Area II” Intellectual History and Critical Thinking program at the North Carolina Governor’s School. […]
When I see my friends in a different field, I wave to them and they wave back, but what we shout is so strange to hear, the wind seems to carry the import of our words to someone somewhere else. We’re left grinning and waving, then— because we have companions who, impatient, want to […]
In a room with windows in each of four walls, a young man props his feet on the table. The apple trees rattle. The wind moves in waves past the garden where okra and lettuce lie bent and bruised from the rain. Where tomatoes and melons lie rotting. Where the man lies rotting with […]
Because I was the paper boy, I knew when everyone was and wasn’t in town. I stole for fun and for the small heavy objects I could tell wouldn’t be missed for a long while. The looking in ticking rooms, the discrete rummaging in strangers’ closets and garages in the early mornings of the neighborhood […]
Escaped from God’s hidden zoo, hunger takes up residence in you, nibbling your patience, siphoning pride, enjoying the warm wet conditions inside. You tried to stop it (but were too slow). You shouted for God (as if God didn’t know). Now, you unclench and allow it to slither and shudder. You feed it like […]
David Bruzina reads and discusses one of his favorite poems, Sonnet 30, by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
David Bruzina talks about a poetry project that currently interests him.