The poem transforms an episode from my past, swimming in a pond where a girlfriend and I had to avoid poisonous water snakes. We weren’t naked and it wasn’t at night, but those details raise the erotic stakes in the poem. That’s where Sir Thomas Wyatt comes in. Wyatt’s poem explores the interplay of pleasure […]
Keith Dunlap
Keith attended Columbia College in NYC in the late Seventies, so that he could study with the New York School of Poets, including Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. After graduation, he worked in bars and restaurants, collected graduate degrees, acted in off-Broadway theater, played drums in bands, and wrote. It never occurred to him to publish poetry until a few years ago. Since then, he has been published in over seventy literary journals. Storyland is Dunlap's first collection.