George Looney's books include the forthcoming The Visibility of Things Long Submerged, which has won the BOA Editions Short Fiction Award, the recently-released collection of poems Ode to the Earth in Translation, a collection of stories, The Worst May Be Over, which won the Elixir Press Fiction Award, The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020, the Red Mountain Press Poetry Award-winning What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations, and the novel Report from a Place of Burning which was co-winner of The Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. He is the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, editor of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

Other poems by George Looney in Verse Daily:
January 31, 2021:   "An Effigy Burning, Abandoned" "Light bends through leaf-moisture, a fluid..."
November 14, 2005:   "The Sleep of Wood in The Houses of Wrens" " It's not the wrens but the girl in overalls..."
May 24, 2005:  "Music Left by Another" ""The gecko survives by clinging...."
April 4, 2005:  "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" ""Coal runs veins under what was..."
October 30, 2004:  "Madness in the Form of Birds" "Folks say mynahs mimic human speech...."

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Other poems on the web by George Looney:
"Figures We’re Meant to Believe In"
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