Cortney Lamar Charleston
Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, New England Review, AGNI, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. He works as a poetry editor at the Rumpus.
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Poetry | Issue 145
Cotton Variation
Cortney Lamar Charleston
‘fibrous little trauma fruit, wan little wound-licker’
Poetry | Issue 145
Turn the River
Cortney Lamar Charleston
‘Backtrack / to the bones of the matter, which are the bones themselves.’