Henry Hughes’ poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Seattle Review, Sewanee Review, and Poetry Northwest. He is the author of four poetry collections, including Men Holding Eggs, which received the Oregon Book Award, and the memoir, Back Seat with Fish. He is a regular book reviewer for Harvard Review […]
Henry Hughes
Henry Hughes: AFTER WE LOST THE HOUSE,
the deck I built, your mother’s plantings, blossoms and birds carved into closet doors for the room you were gonna paint purple. It all went red on my half-time, then Mom got sick and the car died. Winter gnawed through that drafty trailer and the drunk-ruckus apartment on Ninth, until I got the other […]