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Mark DeCarteret

Prose poems from Mark DeCarteret’s manuscript The Year I/We Went Without have been taken by The American Poetry Review, Asheville Poetry Review, BlazeVOX (which also published the first chapter of his novel Off Season), Gargoyle, Hole in the Head (which chose him as a finalist for Charles Simic Poetry Prize), Map Literary, New American Writing, On the Seawall, Touchstone (which selected him the winner of Charles Simic Poetry Contest) and Nixes Mate (which published his last two books of poetry—For Lack of a Calling and lesser case).

  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.

  • Lives of the Postmodern Poets

    You were born too late.