
Steve Scafidi, Jr.’s poetry collections are
For Love of Common Words (LSU, 2006),
Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (LSU, 2001), which won the Larry Levis Reading Prize,
The Cabinet Maker's Window and
To the Bramble and the Briar. His poem “The Egg Suckers” was the winner of
Shenandoah’s 2005 Boatwright Prize. He is a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia. "On First Looking into Golding's Ovid" first appeared in
Shenandoah 51/1.
Steve Scafidi Jr. reading from The Lincoln Poems THE JUNEBUGS Hey boy come here — quick, so he dropped his rake and ran to the yard by the housewhere probably five hundred junebugs like a pile of emeralds … Continue reading →