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Joel Peckham has published seven books of poetry and nonfiction, including Bone Music (SFA), Body Memory (New Rivers), and Resisting Elegy (Chicago Review). Individual poems and essays have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Sugar House Review, Cave Wall, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Sun, and many others. With Robert Vivian, he is also co-editor of Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in American Poetry and Prose, recently released by New Rivers Press. In the fall of 2022 EAT POEMS will release his first Spoken Word LP, STILL RUNNING: WORDS AND MUSIC BY JOEL PECKHAM.

The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents

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The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
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