John Gallaher is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Brand New Spacesuit (BOA 2020), and In a Landscape (BOA 2014) and co-author of two others. He lives in rural Missouri where he teaches and co-edits the Laurel Review.

Other poems by John Gallaher in Verse Daily:
September 27, 2016:   "The Museum of the Occupation" (with Kristina Marie Darling) "So, of course, you have to go in...."
February 19, 2015:   "In a Landscape: XIII" "How many people haven't you married, that you thought..."
March 13, 2014:   "In a Landscape: LIV" "Where's the line between what constitutes repetition..."
December 4, 2013:   "In a Landscape: XXXIV" "If things contain their opposites, why bother? That suffices, I guess..."
July 12, 2012:   "In a Landscape: XLI" "If only you could burn memories in a little pile..."
May 17, 2012:   "Revelation in Slow Time" (with G.C. Waldrep) "Here, where no one is in a hurry..."
May 9, 2012:   "Rose as Red" (with G.C. Waldrep) "It's still not good enough. And you were always told..."
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" "The best idea I ever had..."
September 4, 2011:   "The Bridge at Rest" (with G.C. Waldrep) "The bridge is dreaming again...."
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" "For the difficulty of dinner tables..."
May 7, 2009:   "Duly Noted" "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
January 23, 2009:   "What We're up Against" "On the way home from the funeral..."
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" " They are speaking in the other room..."
May 12, 2007:   "When I Say World I Mean Please" " We begin somewhat after the beginning, in..."
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" " The children are running across the field, each..."

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About Brand New Spacesuit:

"Read these poems in succession and at the pace they create and you’ll have proof that art lets us, wants us, to read another’s mind. John Gallaher’s poetry is relentlessly alive. Moving with candor, humor, speed, and with more gravity than youth can afford, Gallaher has voiced a found and juxtaposed domain, layered and moving along the flotsam of common culture and the axis of family ‘as if everything here is here,’ where the remembered world waits inside of things, or behind, or above, or below them. This is a grown man’s book of relations. It is extraordinary."
—Kathleen Peirce

"One swell thing about living on this planet is how it turns so fast everybody is connected to it and each other and not drifting alone through space except possibly in our own minds. The poems in Brand New Spacesuit are similarly centripetally swell. They turn and they turn and it’s a wild ride that leaves me (and I suspect will also leave you) feeling more connected to the minutiaes and struggles and pleasures and loves of this life on earth. Reading this book feels like some cosmic bang is conjuring up gravity inside your own brain, but whoa it was actually just John Gallaher who did that and he only used his words."
—Kathryn Nuernberger