Philip Schaefer’s first book of poems, Bad Summon, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry from the University of Utah Press and will be released in 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were cowritten with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editors’ Prize in poetry and has individual work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Thrush, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Birdfeast, Salt Hill, Bat City, Adroit, Nashville Review, and Passages North, among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2018
Ransom
Children disappear on a milk carton. Cats and dogs on a lamppost. We are all hanging onto something more stable. When I die I want to be an exposé. Picture […]
Jan/Feb 2017
The Unaccounted
Say we slept like effigies on a stranger’s lawn.
Sideways to the boats roping in, saltwater
lapping the land so thick we could slick it