G. C. Waldrep

Nov 21, 2024 | thecommononline.org | G. C. Waldrep |Allison Funk |Kevin A. O’Connor

Poems By G. C. WALDREP, ALLISON FUNK, and KEVIN O’CONNORTable of Contents:G.C. Waldrep, “Below the Shoals, Glendale”Allison Funk, “After Andrew Wyeth’s Snow Hill”Kevin O’Connor, “The Other Shoe”Below the Shoals, GlendaleBy G. C. WaldrepI am listening to the slickened sound of the newwind. It is a true thing. Or, it is true in its falseness. It is the stuff against which matter’s music breaks. Mural of the natural, a complicity epic. The shoals, not quite distant enough to unhear—Not at all like a war.

Oct 30, 2024 | yalereview.org | G. C. Waldrep

What surprised you about the composition of this poem? Every poem, for me, is a surprise, line by line, image by image. If I know more than a line or two in advance where a poem I’m writing is headed, that’s . . . a lot to know.