And As A Statue, Still, I Reach for It

Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of Book of Kin (Autumn House Press, 2024), winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, and editor of the posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press, 2023) by his mother, Susan Atefat-Peckham. His work has recently appeared in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Shenandoah, Rattle, The Journal, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, and is a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.