Posts Published by Ryan Harper

Ryan Harper is an Assistant Professor at Fairfield University-Bellarmine in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of My Beloved Had a Vineyard, winner of the 2017 Prize Americana in poetry. Some of his recent poems and essays have appeared in Third Wednesday, Thirteen Bridges, Paperbark, Meniscus, and elsewhere. Ryan is the creative arts editor of American Religion Journal.

Not in Ourselves

in Poetry Prose, Poetry, and Art Winter 2024 on April 21, 2024 April 6, 2024

I. Theo Opening again the arrantcorrespondence—relief of the sown fields,bread of affliction:a restless brother burnshis way to harvest,painting space as thing,as woodcut furious,flinders of fire and leaf,heavy, sun-dense strokes, dark notes dealingfor fugitive effects;a red brother workingpetitions…