Results for "Shepard, Bret"

Landscape and language drive the poems in Absent Here, which explore loss, community, the changing environment, and whiteness of skin and scenery against the backdrop of the Alaskan North Slope of the author’s youth. More than mere background, the land and water become characters in their own right,... Read More about Absent Here: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Winner of the 2019 Moon City Poetry Award “Contour lines // down your side of the bed …”: Such lines mark the Place Where Presence Was, Bret Shepard’s debut full-length collection and winner of the Moon City Poetry Award. Here, Shepard probes intimacy and its absence through topographical imagery, ... Read More about Place Where Presence Was: Poems