Al Maginnes has published four chapbooks and nine full length collections of poetry, most recently The Beasts That Vanish (Blue Horse Press, 2021). Recent poems appear in Lake Effect, MacGuffin, Inflectionist Review, American Journal of Poetry and many others. He lives in Raleigh NC and teaches at Louisburg College in Louisburg NC.

Other poems by Al Maginnes in Verse Daily:
May 15, 2017:   "The Gospel of Leaving" "Before we knew the world, we wanted to know the limits..."
March 17, 2012:   "The Edge of the Field" "It was not so hard believing in the end..."
September 24, 2008:   "My Lives" "In one I was a dog, reason enough..."
November 13, 2005:   "Toolshed" " Given enough space, each man believes..."

Books by Al Maginnes:

Other poems on the web by Al Maginnes:
Five poems
"Light Pollution"
Four poems
"Against Relapse"
"Landscape Rising from Solitude"
"Electricity: A Requiem"
"Stern"
"Shooting Pool in the Mental Hospital"
Six poems
Two poems
"The Moon as Absence and Desire"
"The End of Labor"

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