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Charlie Clark

Charlie Clark

Charlie Clark’s work has appeared in Pleiades: Literature in Context, Smartish Pace, Threepenny Review, West Branch, and other journals. He studied poetry at the University of Maryland and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in Austin, Texas.


July/Aug 2017

Three Poems

By Charlie Clark

Carrying My Brother to the Ambulance This close, I for the fourth decade notice how beautiful I find the stark black lashes of his eyes. It’s autumn—after autumn, actually—everything awash […]