Excited for two poems from my next book to appear in American Poetry Review.
Paul Guest
Vibe Walking Into The Ocean
“Hurt Boy
I find you, and I tire of you
I tire of your rag-and-bone doctrine:
how any bloom ends in dry slaughter—
don’t you see beauty isn’t twice itself for being fleet?”
From “Like a Reed Made of Grass” by Nathan Fako in ISSUE 29!
picked this up at AWP and forgot to post about it hehe.. fun to finally have a poem in print!
so happy to have a poem in @westtradereview.bsky.social ! such a beautiful and special issue to me (this is the first poem I ever had accepted for publication)
Our Summer 2026 issue is filled with work that moves between the whimsical and the all-too-real with a strong undercurrent of awareness and attention that can make even a toad or a tampon seem sacred.
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-43-sum...
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
