Rustin Larson's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, and North American Review. He won 1st Editor's Prize from Rhino and was a prize winner in The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation contests. A graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival, and a featured poet at the Poetry at Round Top Festival. He is a poetry professor at Maharishi University, a writing instructor at Kirkwood Community College, and has also been a writing instructor at Indian Hills Community College. Among his published books are Library Rain, Conestoga Zen Press, 2019 which was named a February 2019 Exemplar by Grace Cavalieri and reviewed in The Washington Independent Review of Books; Howling Enigma, Conestoga Zen Press, 2018; Pavement, Blue Light Press, 2017; The Philosopher Savant, Glass Lyre Press, 2015; Bum Cantos, Winter Jazz, & The Collected Discography of Morning, Blue Light Press, 2013; The Wine-Dark House, Blue Light Press, 2009; and Crazy Star, Loess Hills Books, 2005. His honors and awards also include Pushcart Prize Nominee (seven times, 1988-2010); featured writer, DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts, 2007, 2008; and finalist, New England Review Narrative Poetry Competition, 1985.

Other poems by Rustin Larson in Verse Daily:
December 24, 2019:   "Berryman: December: The Shore" "Each day I come to the end of this pier..."
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...."
June 5, 2017:   "Pavement 5" "The pallbearer..."
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..."

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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"

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