Oliver Baez Bendorf

is the author of The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State University Press, 2015) and Advantages of Being Evergreen (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019). Born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, he received a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry and currently lives in Olympia, Washington.

Nation Poetry

I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me

N behold the Lord a neutron star had been “missing” for 32 years visible light faded gradually over 500 days, then astrophysicists announced they had seen a hot,…

Oct 19, 2021 / Poems / Oliver Baez Bendorf

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