Roy Scranton’s poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, LIT, Denver Quarterly, New Letters, Theory & Event, and elsewhere. He has edited (with Matt Gallagher) a collection of short fiction by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, due out in 2013 from Da Capo Press, titled Fire and Forget. He is currently earning a PhD […]
Roy Scranton
Roy Scranton: ‘And nevermore shall we turn back to 7-11’
And nevermore shall we turn back to the 7-11, to the slow river bridged by Market and the train trestle, to WinCo’s late-night lot, to Denny’s or Lancaster Mall, to violet-gold clouds blazing god-caught above the prison. What roots, what blood, what fields plant me in the turning seasons now in this nostalgia, now as […]