Kyle McCord is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Gentle, World, Gentler (forthcoming from Ampersand Books, 2015) and You Are Indeed an Elk, But This is Not the Forest You Were Born to Graze (Gold Wake Press, 2014). His work has been published in Boston Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, among others.  

Photo by Kyle McCord