Matt Sumpter’s work has been nominated for an AWP Intro Journals Award, and recently won the Crab Orchard Review Special Issues Feature Award. Other poems have appeared in journals such as Boulevard, 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, River Styx, and West Branch Wired. In the fall, he will enter the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Binghamton University.
Poolside, an ocean’s distance from the coast / and village where I met you, learned the weight / of bagged cement, the reek of palm oil stirred / by children sweating
By Matt Sumpter© 2014 Blunderbuss Magazine. All rights reserved.