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), and The Philosopher Savant (Glass Lyre Press, 2015).

Other poems by Rustin Larson in Verse Daily:
October 8, 2020:   "A Strange Love Poem" "Roses are forgetting raining days for Naples, I'm afraid...."
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..."

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 on Twitter.

About Lost Letters and Windfalls:

"He makes everything greater because he's a smart singer, every poem is a win. Moments shine with an unselfconscious voice. We cannot imagine how easily paint can be applied if we just speak in real-time of consequential things with a depth of heart. Within that modest framework, the passage of words has a capability and a sphere of influence without limits. The poetry dynamics here are a genuine voice, believable encounters, and the ability to make everything new with the belief that no one's watching you, and nothing can come of it, and there's nothing to get. This is poetry at its best."
—Grace Cavalieri

"Like a painter saturating the colors of Earth, exalting its geography from delirious beauty to war nightmares, Larson takes the reader on a dreamlike journey, filled with flashbacks, family memories, and ghosts."
—Helene Cardona

"Even for Rustin Larson, a master of invention, Lost Letters and Windfalls breaks into new territory. I love the images he chooses and how he transforms them. It's fascinating to see where he goes in the shorter jewel-like poems of this book. Brilliant writing, a delight on every page, a joy to read!"
—Diane Frank

"Rustin Larson is a terrific, elegant, original poet whose voice rings so truly we become better people just by reading him."
—Naomi Shihab Nye