Charles Rafferty has published 15 collections of poetry -- most recently A Cluster of Noisy Planets (BOA Editions, 2021). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac With Garrison Keillor, Connecticut River Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. His second collection of stories is Somebody Who Knows Somebody (Gold Wake Press, 2021). His stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Milk Candy Review, Juked, Okay Donkey, and New World Writing. His first novel is Moscodelphia (Woodhall Press, 2021). Rafferty has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Currently, he co-directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.

Other poems by Charles Rafferty in Verse Daily:
October 4, 2022:   "The Problem With Maps" "When I was growing up, there was no Southern Ocean..."
November 11, 2021:   "Moon" "The dirty monocle stares down at us...."
July 2, 2018:   "Jesus's Brother" "It was difficult living..."
December 25, 2017:   "Forecast" "Famous people have been dying all week and the Christmas tree just..."
January 16, 2016:   "Jesus's Brother" "It was difficult living..."
November 10, 2014:   "The Man With a Missing Dog" "One evening, while searching for a dog..."
June 27, 2011:   Two poems "It is cloudless and moonless and breezeless..."
November 7, 2006:   "Landslide" " Suddenly what loomed..."

Books by Charles Rafferty:

Other poems on the web by Charles Rafferty:
"Poetry"
Three poems
"The Man With a Shirt of Fire"
Three poems
"Ship Inside a Bottle"
"Insomnolence"
Five poems
Two poems
"After Seeing on Google Earth..."
"On Being Asked if I'd Ever Been To Georgia"
"Persistence"
Two poems
Four poems

Charles Rafferty's Website.

Charles Rafferty on Twitter.

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November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
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February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
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December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
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December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
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July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
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January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
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March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
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November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
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