Gary McDowell

Gary L. McDowell is the author of Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming) and American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010) and is the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). He lives in Nashville, TN.

Only one way. The house. The body. What hisses, what gnaws—how to see what I’m meant […]

Arbor Vitae by Gary McDowell
November 14, 2019 in TQ19 Poetry Prize tagged Gary McDowell by Wendy Chen

Tie the body. In knots. Against itself. How to undress the horizon-line, the glint of after-fog […]

How to Settle by Gary McDowell
November 14, 2019 in TQ19 Poetry Prize tagged Gary McDowell by Wendy Chen

All lies have basic truths in common: buzzards’ll flat clean the vermin up Lies always takes an adjective […]

The Museum by Gary McDowell
October 15, 2013 in Poetry tagged Gary McDowell by Ryan Gunn

for hb I do not. Snow piles […]

She Shrugs by Gary McDowell
October 15, 2013 in Poetry tagged Gary McDowell by Ryan Gunn

Definition: time where time is negligent, where a fire- ant’s sting is a light bulb brushed against your […]

My Mother the Philosopher Considers Non Sequiturs by Gary McDowell
October 15, 2013 in Poetry tagged Gary McDowell by Ryan Gunn

1) Because I know you, I know these poems weren’t written sequentially. Are they born of your obsessions, […]

An Interview with Gary McDowell by TJ Jarrett
October 11, 2013 in Editor's Feature tagged Gary McDowell / TJ Jarrett by theriomorph

She dreams she lost her leg in an accident, her tongue in a keyhole. Mirrors aren’t vain, they’re […]

Laughter by Gary McDowell
October 10, 2013 in Poetry tagged Gary McDowell by Ryan Gunn

From the air irrigation canals look like hands with their fingers spread wide, stretching to palm their fields—and […]

Come Morning by Gary McDowell
October 10, 2013 in Poetry tagged Gary McDowell by Ryan Gunn