Doug Ramspeck is the author of five poetry collections and one collection of short stories. His most recent book, The Owl That Carries Us Away, was selected for the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and is forthcoming from BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City). His poems have appeared in journals that include Southern Review, Georgia Review, and Slate.
Poetry
Winter 2011
Field Guide with Moon
Like the porcupine beside our orchard, bloated with death, maggot-covered and open-eyed, the wire fence bent backward beyond the canals, the cup plants drowned in the swelling river, twisted limbs […]
Mar/Apr 2017
Nomads
Every time I walk here with this black ground beneath me and the old hills with their bald backs and the skyways of dust on the ancient road up to […]