Mark Wagenaar is the author of three prize-winning books of poetry, most recently the Saltman Prize-winning Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining, from Red Hen Press. He is an assistant professor at Valparaiso University.

Other poems by Mark Wagenaar in Verse Daily:
November 17, 2018:   "Aubade with Horses (Fort Worth Impromptu II)" "There's no right word for the color of the ashes..."
July 5, 2018:   "Heat Wave (Poem for Novica Tadic Perhaps)" "It was so hot people were unzipping..."
October 26, 2012:   "Carnival Nocturne" "Peanut shells crackle beneath your pink slippers..."

Books by Mark Wagenaar:

Other poems on the web by Mark Wagenaar:
"Migrations"
"In Praise of Improvisation"
Three poems
Three poems
"Poem for Max Ritvo, Perhaps"
"Ghost Hour Gospel"
Three poems
"Winter Song"
"Goat Hour Gospel (Such Salvage)"
"North"
"Me & the Devil Blues"

Mark Wagenaar's Website.

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