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Theodore Worozbyt

Theodore Worozbyt is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the Georgia Council for the Arts. His most recent books are The Rhino Narrative (Cyberwit Press, 2023), Echo’s Recipe (Cyberwit Press, 2022), and Tuesday Marriage Death (Unsolicited Press, 2022). Worozbyt teaches at Georgia State University.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

An Exemplar

By Theodore Worozbyt

Whilst the birds harmoniously deliciate the Air, I learn to open the oven door. Be the leaf, be the leaf, is what I heard in the lizard’s shadow. I don’t […]

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

The Moon

By Theodore Worozbyt

Held together with Velcro and elastic and breathable synthetic black cloth, I clack. The moon hangs over the playing field behind a church and will not photograph. It is not […]

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

Dog

By Theodore Worozbyt

The policeman was going to shoot my dog. I was begging him not to shoot. We were lost. We are lost. I have not recovered from the surgeries. My wife […]

Poetry

Spring 1996

Past Naming

By Theodore Worozbyt

Now what do I call you? Pisser in the Empty Handy Coffee Can, Liner Upper of Chisels, Old-Country Fireball Tomato Man? I have not talked with you for so long, […]