Elias Simpson tried to grow up in Iowa, where he now lives after the MFA stint at VT. He’s chief of the online art journal, Toad. He also has poems forthcoming from Cold Mountain Review, and Interim.
Elias Simpson
Elias Simpson: The swam limps across the courtyard
Why does the uncle with the stroke attempt complete sentences when butter will do? Elegance, even its loss, its drunkenness or disability, conveys the nature of a mind— that sureness of pleasure in itself.