My mother said I’d never make it selling knives though she said once I ought to be a dictator of a third world country. Well I found that country. I found my people and I waved my sword: a knife, double-edged and fork-tipped, complete with fish-scaler, and the first thing I told them, speaking through […]
(Please help me get this pig, dear Lord, into my truck) Please help me get this pig, dear Lord, into my truck. Like Jesus, he senses the coming end; unlike Him, The pig’s exhausted us both with flailing. My hands bleed From the scrap-wood ramp and sides of the truck bed. The rope leash burns […]
Douglas Woodsum, a rural high school English teacher and a winner of the Bread Loaf Poetry Prize, discusses the form of his poem, Fourteener 279.
Douglas Woodsum, a rural high school English teacher and a winner of the Bread Loaf Poetry Prize, discusses the genesis of his poem, Carving Your Future.
Douglas Woodsum, a rural high school English teacher and a winner of the Bread Loaf Poetry Prize, talks about how he began writing poetry.