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David Meischen

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David Meischen is the author of Nopalito, Texas: Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2024) and Caliche Road Poems (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024). Anyone’s Son, from 3: A Taos Press, won Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2020. A Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, David is cofounder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press. He lives in Albuquerque, NM with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.

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Language Trapdoors

What’s on my mind today is how surprise can lurk in the language we use to tell stories, how unexamined words and phrases can shape what we say or write in ways we aren’t aware of.

My father’s father ended his own life in May of 1941, seven years before I was born. His story has haunted me—or rather, what I don’t know of his story, what I do know of how silence in the aftermath of suicide can rippl

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	Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry by Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nopalito, Texas: Stories 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anyone's Son 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 by David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Neugebauer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas Poetry Calendar 2014 by David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cindy Huyser (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems by David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (editor), Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storylandia, Issue 34: The Distance Between Here and Elsewhere: Three Stories by David Meischen (Goodreads Author), Ginger Mayerson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Nopalito, Texas: Stories (Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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These are linked short stories populated by an ensemble of characters so engagingly depicted I didn’t want to leave them when I arrived at the last page. A down-on-her luck woman and her down-on-his luck boyfriend. An ex-husband and his second wife. ...more
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What impresses me most about Lynn C. Miller's The Lost Archive is the rich variety of characters, each one gifted with unique quirks. Each story opens on a character you can relate to. Occasionally, there's even a bit of something like magical realis ...more
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I heard Benjamin Myers read from this collection at the Scissortail Festival last April in Ada, Oklahoma. Bought the book and asked Myers to sign it. Read the poems with relish. This is one of the best collections I've read in recent years. From "The ...more
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