Marc Rahe is the author of The Smaller Half (Rescue Press, 2010), On Hours (Rescue Press, 2015), and Gravity Well (Rescue Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, MAKE Literary Magazine, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, and other literary journals. He lives in Iowa City.

Other poems by Marc Rahe in Verse Daily:
October 26, 2010:   "Late" "The cold night is starry...."

Books by Marc Rahe:

Other poems on the web by Marc Rahe:
"To Live in Interesting Times"
"Dear Paul"
Three poems

About Gravity Well:

Marc Rahe's luminous poems find grace in acts of intentional remembrance, in turning back to sing 'what can be seen/looking behind.' The speaker's world resembles our own fraught moment—fallen, divided—but never numb. These poems hum with moments of transcendence, between body and weather, air and breath, between today's pain and the deep wounds of the past. In precise, lucid lyrics, this voice insists that our capacity to feel is what binds us, ecstatically, to our planet and to one another."
—Kiki Petrosino

"Ever since his first book, The Smaller Half, was published, I've kept my eyes open for new work by Marc Rahe, and whenever new work has come, I've celebrated, actually celebrated. No poet writing in English today is better at making poems stuffed full of being and of things seen, things heard, things touched, things tasted, and things thought hard about nonetheless quiet. And yet, though they approach silence, these poems resonate, and, like Rahe's previous work, they will resonate for years."
—Shane McCrae