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Ross White

Ross White is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is the author of Charm Offensive (Black Spring Press Group, 2023), winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and The Southern Review, among other publications. White is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches creative writing, grammar, editing and publishing, and podcasting. Follow him on Bluesky at @rosswhite.com.

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Post-Pandemic

By Ross White

The Kenyon Review · “Post-Pandemic” by Ross White After Mary OliverDear Lord, I have swept and mopped the floors, falling to my knees to scrub the stains,toothbrush in the grout. […]