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ethan s. evans

ethan s. evans (they/them) is a Poe /Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia, where they teach creative writing. they used to work in botany. they’d drive into fields and log plants into a massive digital map. they’ve spent a lot of time looking for ghosts. their work appears or is forthcoming in the minnesota review, The Journal, and Poets.org. they have a website named after them (https://ethansevans.com/). they organize with United Campus Workers.

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

42nd parallel

By ethan s. evans

clouds raptured with lightning at the 42nd parallel; bolt gun in the hog’s neck a sievefor wind to sever tendonsas the cottonwood felledthe power line for the last time. a […]

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

nebraska

By ethan s. evans

The Kenyon Review · “nebraska” by ethan s. evans with a line from Drugstore Cowboycrossed half a continent to quitthis ceaseless thinking, milkweeds flurrying out of life by road’s edge, […]