atthew Zapruder is the author of five books of poetry. He is the editor at large at Wave Books and teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Saint Mary’s The Best American Poetry 2022 Story of a Poem
Sunflower Poem
No pity
The man carrying the gasoline was nicknamed What-the-Fuck Chuck. Not that a sobriquet is necessarily an indicator of one’s judgment or lack thereof, especially here in Portland, where open-minded people like Paul Regan are disinclined to judge. But t
