Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry and a Pushcart Prize nomination, has work published in Cheat River Review, Whale Road Review, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. He’s also a bookseller at Parnassus Books. You can see more of his work at bengroner.com/creative-writing/.
a deconstructed pantoum There was a time my father and I shared the same air. I’d been new to this world, with so many days ahead, but now his smile is static in the silver picture frame, his face weary yet youthful in the afternoon glow. This world was news to me, many days lay ahead for me, while his… Read more →