Jeff Mock

Jeff Mock 2014Jeff Mock is the author of Ruthless (Three Candles Press, 2010). His poems appear in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, The North American Review, Shenandoah, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife, Margot Schilpp, and their daughters, Paula and Leah.

To Be Absolute Requires Us Also to Be Complete

  The church takes in all who Agree that it is a church. The priest blesses all who Admit to sin and claim to repent. The wine is a metaphor, as is The word, which is also a trick, A … Continue reading