02/01/2010
Matthew Rohrer
Tanka

He drank a lot
and fell into the river
we waded out to get his hat
A man who’s really good at what he does
looks the same as other men

BIO:

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), Satellite, A Green Light (short listed for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and Rise Up. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures.
MORE POEMS:

12/03/2009
'Main Character’s Diatribe to Writers', John Hart

09/19/2010
'from “A Short Treatise on the Nature of the Gods”', Dan Beachy-Quick

01/19/2011
'Epic', Marcela Sulak