Brian Barker‘s debut book of poems, The Animal Gospels, won the Tupelo Press Editor’s Prize and was published in 2006. He teaches at University of Colorado and coedits Copper Nickel.
Fall 2009
Silent Montage With Late Reagan in Black & White
He feels the white room stuccoed behind his smile— He feels the silence like an undertow of tentacles, & the nurses’ hats are canvas sails scorched with sunlight, gauzy curtains […]