Results for "Vine, Ryan"

Distant Engines is one of the three winners of The Weldon Kees Award for 2005 from The Backwaters Press.... Read More about Distant Engines

Working-class machismo plus alcohol plus Catholicism have woven a spirit-killing trap that our protagonist has to escape, by way of courage and imagination. The poems convey the stress of outgrowing one's origins without betraying them. It's a drama that Ryan Vine explores without sentimentalizing a... Read More about To Keep Him Hidden

The Rumpus, in a review of his work, labeled poet Ryan Vine “a raconteur,” and his superior story-telling skills are on full display in WARD. The poems are witty, teeming with dark humor, political, playful, and the sardonic tone is pitch-perfect for our times, when we seem to have forgotten that an... Read More about WARD: Poems (The TRP Chapbook Series)