Tom Reiter
Thomas Reiter’s fifth and most recent book of poems, Catchment, was published by LSU in 2009. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Kenyon Review. He is Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Monmouth University, where he held the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities. A Roadside in Kansas
In every direction, the American Dream with center-pivot irrigation. But not on this land-boom Wichita & Western’s remnant right of way. The rails went for ordnance after Pearl Harbor, the ties for firewood. Loam of glacial till, minerals locked … Continue reading
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Goofy was piloting a paddle-wheeler in your favorite cartoon when I awoke. Your arm at the same time as his pulled the steam whistle, a jaw hinged open to fill our living room with its cry at every landing. … Continue reading