Doug Ramspeck is the author of nine poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a novella. His most recent poetry book, Blur (The Word Works, 2023), received the Tenth Gate Prize. Individual poems have appeared in journals that include The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Sun, and The Georgia Review.

Other poems by Doug Ramspeck in Verse Daily:
September 23, 2023:   "That Summer" "when the mercenaries came to live with us..."
April 25, 2019:   "Gliding" "My father was suspicious..."
October 19 2015:   "Field Religion" "The old men fishing at the river..."
January 12, 2015:   "The Human Velocity" "When, last August, our neighbor 's house burned down..."
August 9, 2012:   "Starving Horse" "It is morning and no worse for it...."
March 4, 2011:   "Feral Evening" "Not the bats diving..."
September 30, 2010:   "Gorgeous Light" "We lived by a bay..."
July 23, 2009:   "Bottomlands Tongue" "And so the burning of this sun beside the pickerelweeds..."
July 16, 2009:   "Mermaid in my Fish Bowl" "I would say she was no larger..."
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" "The boy found a possum skull..."
May 17, 2008:   "Late Husband" "In her dreams, then, she imagined him as feverish...."

Other poems on the web by Doug Ramspeck:
"Nomads"
"One True Poem"
"The Marriage We Carried in Our Pockets"
Two poems
"open hand"
Two poems
"Cemetery Grass"
Two poems
Four poems
"My Father, Drunk, Shakes the Apple Boughs and the Stars Fall"
"the midwest sheds its skin"
Three poems
Five poems
"White Sky"

Doug Ramspeck's Website.

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June 26, 2023:   "A Poem About Not Getting a Dog" by Gary Greene
June 25, 2023:   "Speaking of Birds" by Gray Thomas
June 24, 2023:   "Neglect" by Leslie Gerber
June 23, 2023:   "Report from a Distance" by Athena Kildegaard
April 5, 2023:   "Ode to the Automobile and Human Happiness" by Alicia Ostriker
April 3, 2023:   "Their Share of the Dark" by S.C. Flynn
December 31, 2022:   "Normal In Wyoming" by Martin Vest
December 30, 2022:   "Brentwood, April 3rd" by Jasmine Khaliq
December 29, 2022:   "The Little I Remember" by Tina Barry
October 11, 2022:   "My Body Is Mine" by Amira Antoun Salameh (translated by Yafa al-Shayeb and Jennifer Jean)
September 27, 2022:   "One Good Memory" by Noah Arhm Choi
September 23, 2022:   "Elites" by Maia Siegel
September 22, 2022:   "The Warm Bed" by Lynne Knight
July 9, 2022:   "Visiting My Mother's Wars" by A.E. Wilberton
June 2, 2022:   "In the Checkout Line at Rite Aid," by Cati Porter
March 18, 2022:   "Divorce" by Rebecca Morton
March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" by Michelle Bitting
September 10, 2021:   "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" by Martha Silano
August 6, 2021:   "Between Jobs" by Lilian Ha
May 17, 2021:   "House Song with Wonder Woman" by Siew David Hii
May 14, 2021:   "I Can't Stop" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
May 12, 2021:   "The Missing Pages" by Mary Crow
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" by John A. Nieves
July 24, 2020:   "Melancholy Street" by Rhett Iseman Trull
July 23, 2020:   "Lost" by Susanna Lang
July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
November 14, 2019:   "Apocalypse #2" by David Beebe
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" by David Beebe
November 12, 2019:   "Fire Country" by Rebecca Aronson
February 20, 2019:   "Hier Gibt es Blaugeerren" William Trowbridge
March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Bottomlands Dream" by Chelsea Dingman
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley
August 10, 2016:   "You Get to Missing" by Cady Vishniac
August 9, 2016:   "The Betta Fish, Christmas" by Julie Danho
November 1, 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" by Carl Phillips
August 30, 2012:   "from Clangings" by Steve Cramer
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer
May 25, 2010:   "I Want You" by Weston Cutter

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