Billy Collins calls the poem, which invites the reader into it as "hospitable." Shawn Delgado's poems are certainly hospitable--they're plain spoken, tell storied, but are always nuanced, their clarity limited by a quiet, insistent originality. This slim volume, this sheaf, you are holding, is the beginning of a true voice in American poetry.— Thomas Lux
Shawn Delgado
Shawn Delgado is the author of the chapbook, A Sky Half-Dismantled (Jeanne Duval Editions). His work is appears or is forthcoming from Connotation Press, Cortland Review, storySouth, and Terminus. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of English at UNC Greensboro.Video Spotlight
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He shouldn’t have worn sneakers. That was a mistake. A shower would have helped, too. Why could he never remember that skipping a shower didn’t lend him a feeling of rebelliousness, as his mirror would like to have him think, but only made him feel slimy, insecure?…
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