Ephraim Scott Sommers, a singer-songwriter, poet, and essayist, is the author of Someone You Love Is Still Alive (2019), winner of the 2019 Jacar Press Book Award, and The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire (Tebot Bach 2017), winner of the 2016 Patricia Bibby First Book Award. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Other poems by Ephraim Scott Sommers in Verse Daily:
February 4, 2010:   "Because the Body is Made of Water" "A thimble full of moonlight..."

Books by Ephraim Scott Sommers:

Other poems on the web by Ephraim Scott Sommers:
"The Search Party's Prayer"
Two poems
"I Won't Be Able to Say This When I'm Dead"
"My Wife and I Role-Play the New Poem of the Honeymoon"
"This Being a Man"
Two poems

Ephraim Scott Sommers's Website.

Ephraim Scott Sommers on Twitter.

About Someone You Love Is Still Alive:

"Someone You Love Is Still Alive is a beautiful book about love and survival in the in the face of institutions that work to make something as genuine as desire improbable. Ephraim Scott Sommers deftly takes on nation, religion, and even marriage itself. And when I say takes on, I mean that these poems find him asking how he dare enjoy the privilege of what he questions: 'And I don't know/what the bible/of my want for him/would even look like...' This is a gorgeous and dangerous book."
—Jericho Brown

"Someone You Love is Still Alive compels the reader to remember that they are, after all, still human. Despite a fractured world, a challenging experience of what it is to be a member of a global society, intimate connections still bind us. When the poet writes 'My name is sometimes the wound, sometimes the weapon', s/he makes a case for the twin in all of us, the twin of creation and destruction, of love and hate. The language in which the poems are grounded is rich, it is anti-performance and pro-reading, proving a sensitivity to the rhythms and meditativeness which are the tuning mechanisms of the finest poetry. The voice is authoritative but never harsh, and that most important consideration of all, tone, characterised by a mix of tenderly expressed feeling and a brave kind of horror at the state of the world. It is a poetry we as readers need.'"
—Mary O'Donnell