Noel Sloboda

Noel Sloboda has published two poetry collections as well as seven chapbooks, most recently Creature Features (Mainstreet Rag Publishing Company, 2022). He has also published a book about Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein. Sloboda is an associate professor at Penn State York, where he coordinates the English program. Read more on his website.

Retirement Plans

My boss says my methods make me a dinosaur, doomed to go extinct. Did those majestic reptiles pinch nostrils at the stench of tar pits, resigned to a final plunge? Maybe. But scholars assert the interval between T-Rexes and Stegosauruses exceeded the interval between T-Rexes and homo sapiens. I might last a little while longer. Many of my scales still… Read more →