Roger Pfingston is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards. He is the author of The Circus of Unreasonable Acts (Poems & Photographs), Something Iridescent, a collection of poetry and fiction, and five chapbooks: Nesting, Earthbound, Singing to the Garden, A Day Marked for Telling, and What's Given, the latter published this year by Kattywompus Press. His poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including 1-70 Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Poet Lore, Poetry East, American Journal of Poetry, lnnisfree Poetry Journal, and Ted Kooser's column, American Life in Poetry. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As a photographer, Pfingsten has been exhibiting and publishing his photographs since the late sixties.

Books by Roger Pfingston:

Other poems on the web by Roger Pfingston:
"No Grass"
"December"
"Mountain Fog"
"As Good A Place As Any"
Four poems
Two poems
"Sandhill Cranes"
"Buckskin, Indiana"
"Appointments"