Colin Pope

Colin Pope is Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Northwestern University. He is the author of Why I Didn’t Go to Your Funeral (Tolsun Books, 2019) and Prayer Book for the New Heretic (NYQ Books, 2023). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Best New Poets, Slate, AGNI, and Pleiades, among others. He lives in Chicago and works on the editorial boards of Nimrod International, RHINO, and TriQuarterly.

  • A History of Mirrors

    We’ve accidentally collided with something real tonight