Todd Fredson
Todd Fredson’s poetry and non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, American Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He is the Director of Programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal. He lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their sons.
Articles by this Author
The Hills Can Tell
- By Todd Fredson
- Published 05/12/2010
- MaverickMagazine 15/16 , Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson
- Unrated
The hills can tellby how flat your eyes are
how near a thing has become.
Dogs and wolves share a denning instinct.
To dig down.
The straw is a calendar.
Souvenir
- By Todd Fredson
- Published 05/12/2010
- Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson , MaverickMagazine 15/16
- Unrated
Beatific, shock-white frostjagged around the edge of the leaf. Moon,
your daughter is the tip of my tongue.
But in the moonlight
she has not been heard.
Poppy
- By Todd Fredson
- Published 05/12/2010
- MaverickMagazine 15/16 , Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson
- Unrated
On the bus, we catch each other to the point of acknowledgmentthen turn away.
One man waits with an unlit cigarette on his lip.
The soft side of his wrist tattooed
with an ideogram. Silver links of his watchband
For Lucy
- By Todd Fredson
- Published 05/12/2010
- MaverickMagazine 15/16 , Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson
- Unrated
after Juan Ramón JiménezShout for joy!
Shout for joy! But do not
wake the other dead, our friends
Like a Heart Beating on the Page Before
- By Todd Fredson
- Published 05/12/2010
- Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson , MaverickMagazine 15/16
- Unrated
the shore ruffles. The hem of a slipthe sleeper
is pulled out into the middle of his most beautiful dream.
Carving Masks
- By Todd Fredson
- Published 05/12/2010
- MaverickMagazine 15/16 , Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson
- Unrated
A butterflydarkens. Lowers itself from the massive white cloud
migrating north toward the Sahara.
The desert is moving south.
Categories
- Issues
- MaverickMagazine 1 (36)
- Feature Poet 1: Ramón E. Martínez (13)
- MaverickMagazine 2 (21)
- Feature Poet 2: Martha Modena Vertreace (7)
- MaverickMagazine 3 (30)
- Feature Poet 3: Bill Knott (10)
- MaverickMagazine 4 (29)
- Feature Poet 4: Henry Oso Quintero (10)
- MaverickMagazine 5 (32)
- Feature Poet 5: Mac Oliver (9)
- MaverickMagazine 6/7 (35)
- Feature Poet 6/7: Eva Skrande (8)
- MaverickMagazine 8 (36)
- Feature Poet 8: Howard Fisch (6)
- MaverickMagazine 9 (36)
- Feature Poet 9: Mark DeCarteret (4)
- MaverickMagazine 10 (45)
- Feature Poet 10: Allison Eastley (5)
- MaverickMagazine 11 (31)
- Feature Poet 11: Aaron Anstett (4)
- MaverickMagazine 12 (48)
- Feature Poet 12: Maria Melendez (4)
- MaverickMagazine 13/14 (28)
- Feature Poet 13/14 - Janaka Stucky (5)
- MaverickMagazine 15/16 (43)
- Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson (6)
- MaverickMagazine 17 (41)
- MaverickMagazine 18 (5)