King’s Syria

Franke Varca received his MFA in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and cofounded the University of Houston’s undergraduate literary journal Glass Mountain and its conference for emerging writers, Boldface. Some recognitions include a Discovery/92Y Poetry Prize and a finalist designation from the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Among other places, his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Poet Lore, and Southern Humanities Review.