John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001) and co-editor of The Laurel Review. His poetry has recently been published in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, FIELD, jubilat, The Journal, and Ploughshares. He holds graduate degrees from Texas State University and Ohio University and lives in rural Missouri.

Other poems by John Gallaher in Verse Daily:
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" " The children are running across the field, each..."
May 26, 2005:  "No Encores. No Autographs." ""When I was little, and could float..."

About The Little Book of Guesses:

"In these poems of houses and yards and little roads, things are quietly disintegrating. And the men and women are always rushing toward a future, where the sky is gray and voices are going too fast to understand, but, if you look for it, a redbud is shimmering on the lawn. "
—Henri Cole