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John Dorsey


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John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire (Tangerine Press, 2016), Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Press, 2017) and Triple Threat (Crisis Chronicles, 2019). He has served as the Poet Laureate of Belle, Missouri. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times. ...more

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Appalachian Frankenstein: T...

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Tombstone Factory

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Street Maps for Lost Souls

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Sodomy is a City in New Jersey

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Ghost on the Inside

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Triple Threat

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Imaginary Foxholes

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White Girl Problems

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Your Daughter's Country: Poems

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“you told me once
about how they used
to build whole city states
out of poems

how everything you see here
is made out of
the bones of dreams

how having a stiff
drink with lorca meant
you had to write
everything down right away

lately the words just
won’t come”
John Dorsey
tags: poetry



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