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Summer 2013 • Vol. XXXV No. 3 Poetry |

Separate City: Prose Poems: Lives I’ll Never Live (for Minor White)

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Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey by the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio (Tavern Books, Fall 2012).

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