Author: The Salty River Bleeds, The Timbre of Sand, Still Dandelions, A Ranch Bordering the Salty River. Alum: Palomar College, Columbia University, Bennington College. Follow on twitter @SmpageSteve on Instagram @smpagemoria on Facebook @steven.page.1481
here they do not honor absent-mindedness,
forgive forgetfulness,
admire the deep-in-thought academic.
here, there is no Professor of Ranch
no Dean of Land.
my degrees hang up on an unviewed wall.
here, there is only the count
and how much the workers can uncount
without notice.
S. M. Page is from Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of The Timbre of Sand and Still Dandelions. He holds two AA’s from Palomar College, a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Bennington College. His critical essays have appeared regularly in the Buenos Aires Herald and the Fox Chase Review. He is the recipient of The Jess Cloud Memorial Prize, a Writer-in-Residence from the Montana Artists Refuge, a Full Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, an Imagination Grant from Cleveland State University, and an Arvon Foundation Ltd. Grant. He loves his wife, travel, family, and friends.
Stephen Page is from Detroit. He is part Shawnee and part Apache. He is the author of four books of poetry - The Salty River Bleeds, A Ranch Bordering the Salty River, The Timbre of Sand, and Still Dandelions. He holds two AA’s from Palomar College, a BA from Columbia University, and an MFA from Bennington College. He also attended Broward College. His literary criticisms have appeared regularly in the Buenos Aires Herald, How Journal, Gently Read Literature, North of Oxford, and the Fox Chase Review. His fiction has been published in Quarto, The Whistling Fire, and Amphibi. He is the recipient of The Jess Cloud Memorial Prize, a Writer-in-Residence from the Montana Artists Refuge, a Full Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, an Imagination Grant from Cleveland State University, and an Arvon Foundation Ltd. Grant. He loves his wife, travel, family, and friends.
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Hey Stephen, I asked you in another post where you were from in Michigan, well this post answered that one. Hello neighbor. I grew up in East Detroit, later known as Eastpointe.
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Great piece! Said succinctly.
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Gracias.
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Hey Stephen, I asked you in another post where you were from in Michigan, well this post answered that one. Hello neighbor. I grew up in East Detroit, later known as Eastpointe.
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Cool!
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