Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021), I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.

Other poems by Ace Boggess in Verse Daily:
November 23, 2022:   "Dead Something" "In my bed: a droplet of dyed-black school glue..."
May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" "See an Aramark delivery van parked in a lot & flip it off..."
April 10, 2022:   "The Dream Turned Religious Right Before I Woke" "all I remember though earlier it found an action plot..."
October 10, 2020:   "Prayer for Another October" "Lord, grant me two Octobers in a row..."
November 4, 2017:   "Letter to the Turkey Vulture on the Side of the Road Eating a Dead Deer's Eye" "you have to be the ugliest ferryman..."

Books by Ace Boggess:

Other poems on the web by Ace Boggess:
Three poems
"Goodbye for Now"
"Which Star Wars Character Are You?"
"I Watch a Drug Deal Happen"
"Why I Can't Go Back To Prison"
"The New Summer"
"Stay Safe"
"How Fun Is This!"
"Still Have Anger Issues with the Past"
"Occupation"
"Rock Garden"
Eleven poems
Three poems
Four poems
"Facebook Keeps Telling Me"
"Why I Can't Drink My Coffee Black"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
"The Amazing Mr. X"
"Storm Clouds Over Fairmont"
"Has the Music Faded at All?"
Three poems

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