George Moore's collection, Saint Agnes Outside the Walls will be published with FutureCycle Press in 2016. His earlier collections include Children's Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry 2015) and The Hermits of Dingle (FutureCycle 2013). Poems have appeared in The Atlantic, North American Review, Poetry, and Colorado Review. Retired from the University of Colorado, Boulder, he currently lives on the south shore of Nova Scotia.
She found these men in long coats strange, their closed faces, their tall and silent lines counterpoised her missionary stock. Across the Aegean, the Turkish mainland might be imagined a hundred years ago, sailing vessels coming into port, a girl of thirteen, bred on the bible at distances the Word could go, and on the tongues of a million foreign… Read more →