Elton Glaser

eltonElton Glaser has published eight full-length collections of poems, two of them in 2013: Translations from the Flesh (Pittsburgh) and The Law of Falling Bodies (Arkansas), winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize.  "Hang a Left at the Beer-and-Bait" first appeared in Shenandoah 60/3.

Hang a Left at the Beer-and-Bait

I believe in the thunderbolt, not the weather map. All around me, light scars the sky. Readers of the purple page, sometimes I get so churchy I kneel down to the bug zapper and the pork chop. What kind of … Continue reading