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Pier Wright

Pier Wright: The Hibiscus, Key West

September 16, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

we shared thin, raw, slices of tuna, conch salad, cracked stone crab claws, drank dark rum, tripped over the noisy chickens on our way to your room. drank more rum from plastic cups, then a table broke, the matching chair in pieces, waltzing together across worn linoleum like aging Tantric porn stars. waking to Cuban […]

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Pier Wright

Pier Wright: Driveway poem

September 16, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

we arrived early at the house by the subshop after the bar closed it was cold and being new at love the only way we thought to keep warm was by undressing completely, with great urgency in the front seat of the Ford then my foot got stuck in the horn just as our friends […]

Filed Under: Issue 103, Poetry, Poetry 103 Tagged With: Pier Wright

Pier Wright

September 15, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Pier Wright attended Kalamazoo College where he was influenced by the poetry of Con Hilberry and later by that of Diane Seuss. The first poetry reading he ever attended, and has never forgotten, was Robert Bly reading from Silence In The Snowy Fields. He received a Post-Baccalaureate & Masters degree from The Art Institute of […]

Filed Under: Contributors 103, Issue 103 Tagged With: Pier Wright

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