George Looney is the author of fifteen collections of poetry and fiction, most recently The Worst May Be Over (stories) and The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. He founded the BFA Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he is Distinguished Professor and serves as Editor of the literary journal Lake Effect and Translation Editor of Mid-American Review. He was co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

Other poems by Poet Name in Verse Daily:
November 14, 2005:   "The Sleep of Wood in The Houses of Wrens" " It's not the wrens but the girl in overalls..."
May 24, 2005:  "Music Left by Another" ""The gecko survives by clinging...."
April 4, 2005:  "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" ""Coal runs veins under what was..."
October 30, 2004:  "Madness in the Form of Birds" "Folks say mynahs mimic human speech...."

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