Caryl Pagel is the author of two collections of poetry, Twice Told and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, The Collagist, Entropy, Essay Press, Wave Composition, and The Mississippi Review. Caryl is the co-founder and editor of Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She is an assistant professor at Cleveland State University, where she teaches poetry and nonfiction in the NEOMFA program.

Other poems by Caryl Pagel in Verse Daily:
September 9, 2012:   "A Vision" "I am aware of birds in the gutter as I awake..."
October 19, 2008:   "Jacket" "He bites a tape-measure between his teeth..."

Books by Caryl Pagel:

Other poems on the web by Caryl Pagel:
"Red Sky"
Two poems
Two poems
"Ghost Towns"

About Twice Told:

"Twice Told is a grave collection of accounts and encounters in which premonitions, visions, whispers, and coincidences circle a dire, unidentified plot. Disturbed and disturbing, over-heard and beheld, Pagel's “perpetual disclosures” chillingly foretell the past and regret the future. How terrifying! How thrilling! Sung in the hushed tones of secret, instinctual, and incremental rhythms, Pagel's beautiful “catastrophic underground echoes” have the urgent intensity of a steady descent down a spiral staircase in a dream. Moreover, Twice Told has “a frantic animal soul” that plays dead to survive its own death. When you put down this book of poems you will fear your own shadow."
—Robyn Schiff