Anthony Ceballos received his BFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2014 he won Hamline’s George Henry Bridgeman Poetry Award. In 2016 he was selected to be a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series mentee. His poetry has been previously featured in Yellow Medicine Review. He lives, breathes and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found working at Birchbark Books and Native Arts.
I swallowed a bullet when I was twenty-one, it came in a shot glass and didn’t make a sound, it came in a shot glass and nine years later severed my spine, the numbness took me by surprise, threw me against, a wall, laughed as I slouched down, fetal position, an inviting hand around my throat, singing death song, eyes… Read more →
I trace my footsteps in the dust of a butterfly’s torn wings, we were knocked from the sky by the teeth of hungry bullets fired from guns of men with severed heads; they wanted to hear a butterfly scream, they wanted God to fall from heaven,… Read more →