{"id":1097,"date":"2016-04-03T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:17:06","slug":"person-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/04\/03\/person-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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the thugs were children
circling the villain with torches
while their grandfathers were lifting
the newspaper like a barbell<\/p>\n

each day from its useless doorstep<\/p>\n

fat beard full of mouth
marshals the house to false alert<\/p>\n

you put out the fires that came in
but they say you drowned in the blaze<\/p>\n

there was a bottle full of river
and too much to burn<\/p>\n

I was only there because rivers begin<\/p>\n

now the riverbed sleeps inside me
and its old smoke is still waiting<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rich Ives<\/strong> lives on Camano Island in Puget Sound. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Dublin Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily<\/em> and many more. He is a winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander<\/em> and has been nominated twice for the Best of the Web, three times for Best of the Net and six times for The Pushcart Prize. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air <\/em>magazine. Tunneling to the Moon<\/em>, a book of days with a work for each day of the year, is available from Silenced Press; Sharpen, a fiction chapbook, is available form Newer York Press; and Light from a Small Brown Bird<\/em>, a book of poems, is available from Bitter Oleander Press. He is also the winner of the What Books Press Fiction Competition, and his story \u00a0collection, The Balloon Containing the Water Containing the Narrative Begins Leaking,<\/em> is now available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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