Rustin Larson's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, and The American Entomologist Poet's Guide to the Orders of Insects. He is the author of The Wine-Dark House (Blue Light Press, 2009), Crazy Star (selected for the Loess Hills Book's Poetry Series in 2005), Bum Cantos, Winter jazz, & The Collected Discography of Morning, winner of the 2013 Blue Light Book Award (Blue Light Press, San Francisco), The Philosopher Savant (Glass Lyre Press, 2015) and Pavement, winner of the Blue Light Poetry Prize for 2016.

Other poems by Rustin Larson in Verse Daily:
May 5, 2019:   "Syrian Girl Crossing the Border from Greece" "The road, as I recall, was a pitted moonscape of chalk..."
October 5, 2018:   "Creature From The Black Lagoon" "I am guilty of eating a chocolate chip muffin...."
May 4, 2016:   "The Philosopher Savant Contemplates the Dangerous Sun" "The tinsel under which I showered this morning..."
February 6, 2014:   "Damaged Enough" "I still my heart and I can hear you..."
February 20, 2013:   "The Philosopher Savant Again Dreams of War" "Insurgencies on boundaries of garden..."
September 15, 2002:  "The Gerbils" "Happily busy in the middle of the night..."

Books by Rustin Larson:

Other poems on the web by Rustin Larson:
Two poems
"Poem With First Line from W.S. Merwin"
"Bum Canto 1"
"The Carter Family Gets Famous"
Eight poems
"Breakfast on the Terrace"
"Mysterious Island"
Two poems
Five poems
Six poems
"One Cup of Tea"
Seven poems
"Butter Cow"
"Circle of Fifths"

Rustin Larson's Blog.

Rustin Larson's Website.

Rustin Larson on Twitter.

About Howling Enigma:

"DEAR RUSTIN, "I still talk to my father..." or "History" or "One Cup of Tea" or "We Iowans..." Thank you for your most consoling and compelling HOWLING ENIGMA!! YOUR WORDS always ring truth to me!"
—Naomi S. Nye