Oklahoma Poet Laureate Benjamin Myers reflects on the pleasures and discontents of rural life.
With My Daughter at the County Fair
A father reflects on his changing relationship with his growing daughter in Benjamin Myers’s tender poem.
Cubist Spring
Benjamin Myers invokes the mood and texture of Cubism to convey a critical moment in one man’s life.
The City Dump
Oklahoma Poet Laureate Benjamin Myers writes of men and brotherhood, and how healing can occur in unexpected places.