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William Stobb

William Stobb is the author of five poetry collections, including the National Poetry Series selection Nervous Systems (2007) and Absentia (2011), both from Penguin Books. Stobb works as associate editor of Conduit and assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.

Poetry

July/Aug 2015

What Is Happening

By William Stobb

By the time the century of white blue black weather was over I had a storm spiral affixed to my mirror with Scotch™ tape. It will be hard to explain […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2015

Earl of Rochester

By William Stobb

Five guys in cutoffs sit on five five-gallon pails. It’s 1950 for just a moment and the sandwiches they devour are the sandwiches building the bridges now collapsing in real […]

William Stobb

William Stobb is the author of five poetry collections, including the National Poetry Series selection Nervous Systems (2007) and Absentia (2011), both from Penguin Books. Stobb works as associate editor […]