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Mark DeCarteret

Mark DeCarteret has published poems in AGNI, Atlanta Review, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Phoebe, Salt Hill, 3rd bed, and The Carnegie Mellon Press Anthology of American Poetry. His first collection, Review--A Book of Poems,  published by Kettle of Fish Press in 1995, was, according to Bill Knott,"filled with insight and outrage, monstrosities and miracles." Before that, he published a chapbook, Over Easy (Minotaur, 1990). A second chapbook, The Great Apology, was just published by Oyster River Press.

 Articles by this Author

                something slips
                inside the mind
                & you stumble
                once again
                over words
                that don't
                add up
                yep the world's
                been made

                why when
                your lips
                seemed so
                certain
                as if
                when we
                kissed
                there was

                you troweled over
                expectations
                convinced yourself
                the muffled sneeze
                that taste of paste
                could traverse
                the fjord at your core

                he tells me
                he's done
                more damage
                trying to come to
                a haiku
                way back when
                he took up
                half the world
                just coughing
                something rare