Clint McCown grew up in the South. He chairs the creative writing program at Beloit College and has twice won the American Fiction Award for his short stories, which have been widely published. He is also a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. He lives in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Other poems by Clint McCown in Verse Daily:
April 9, 2017:   "Sarah, Unbroken" "My wife—Dawn—..."

Books by Clint McCown:

Other poems on the web by Clint McCown:
"A Note to My Daughters, Far Away"
"Total Balance Farm"
Four poems

About The Dictionary of Unspellable Noises:

"Clint McCown is a casually cosmic poet... Nothing in the world is too large or too small for these disturbing epiphanies. Elemental forces are at work here. In the end, the fruits of this experience turn out to be persimmons from McCown’s native Tennessee: irresistible to the taste, but capable of puckering our blander assumptions."
—Philip Appleman

"Clint McCown's new book of poetry delves into the unruly world of nature, not as a guide or simply as scenery, but with the steady gaze of the late John Haines. Here nature, family, and selfhood are not just talked about but explored and questioned."
—Matthew Dickman

"Clint McCown keeps a wry eye on the universe and thereby keeps his sanity and ours. He is asking all or most of the big questions, which are still the right questions."
—Roger Mitchell

"In this marvelous collection of poems by one of our very best storytellers, time slows like the light does at the end of the day. Nature drives a hard bargain. We milk a dead cow to save her newborn calf. No matter how deep the fence posts were set, the soil loosens. “Experience / speaks a language all its own.” Our mortality is everywhere. In contemplation, “we are the universe / asking itself a question.” And it’s a bitter truth, Clint McCown’s wisdom, his sweet wisdom."
—Ralph Angel

"These poems perceptively consider our mysteries and our limitations. “Thinking is the only voice I own,” McCown writes, but he also sings with a rough and seasoned music."
—Mark Cox