Bruce Beasley

Bruce Beasley is the author of nine collections of poems, most recently Prayershreds (Orison Books, 2023) and All Soul Parts Returned and Theophobia, both from BOA Editions.  A recipient of four Pushcart prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he has other recent poems appearing in Five Points, Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals.

  • Two Poems

    might it not behoove us to retire, to pull away
  • Undertaking

    “It is certainly strange
  • Called to Lapse

    And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears
  • Like Warm Ice Cubes

    A father is like warm