Ace Boggess is author of five books of poetry—Misadventure, I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, Ultra Deep Field, The Prisoners, and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled—and the novels States of Mercy and A Song Without a Melody. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Mid-American Review, Rattle, River Styx, and many other journals. He received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and spent five years in a West Virginia prison. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia. His sixth collection, Escape Envy, is forthcoming from Brick Road Poetry Press in 2021.

Other poems by Ace Boggess in Verse Daily:
November 4, 2017:   "Letter to the Turkey Vulture on the Side of the Road Eating a Dead Deer's Eye" "you have to be the ugliest ferryman..."

Books by Ace Boggess:

Other poems on the web by Ace Boggess:
"I Watch a Drug Deal Happen"
"Why I Can't Go Back To Prison"
"The New Summer"
"Stay Safe"
"How Fun Is This!"
"Still Have Anger Issues with the Past"
"Occupation"
"Rock Garden"
Eleven poems
Three poems
Four poems
"Facebook Keeps Telling Me"
"Why I Can't Drink My Coffee Black"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
"The Amazing Mr. X"
"Storm Clouds Over Fairmont"
"Has the Music Faded at All?"
Three poems

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About Misadventure:

"You can count on two things with the poet Ace Boggess: he deals out truth and he doesn't put on airs."
—Karen Craigo

"With Boggess the pursuit is made with an abnormally brutal honesty and deft manipulation of image that creates poetry rich with surprise and revelation."
—Marc Harshman