Roy Bentley is the author of Walking with Eve in the Loved City, chosen by Billy Collins as finalist for the Miller Williams poetry prize; Starlight Taxi, winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize; The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, chosen by John Gallaher as winner of the White Pine Poetry Prize; as well as My Mother's Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986 – 2020 published by Lost Horse Press. Poems have appeared in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, Rattle, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, and Prairie Schooner among others. His latest is Beautiful Plenty (Main Street Rag, 2021).

Other poems by Roy Bentley in Verse Daily:
November 9, 2019:   "'Old Ghost Appears Before the Un-American Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat'" "He is there before HUAC unsummoned, Old Ghost, a fiction..."
October 6, 2019:   "The Lonely Good Company of the Dead" "Now that they are gone, they are everywhere...."

Books by Roy Bentley:

Other poems on the web by Roy Bentley:
Three poems
"The Death of the Box Turtle"
"First Haircut"
Two poems
"Trotwood, Ohio"
"Souls Falling Into Hell Like Snowflakes"
"Al Capone Offers Instruction in How to Love"
"Appalachian Love Story"
"Boat in the Attic"
"My Father's Love Letters"
"Rimbaud Dying"
"Death at the Lakeshore"
Three poems
Six poems
"The Last Drive-In in Newark, Ohio Closes"
Three poems
Two poems
"Angry Men"