Doug Ramspeck is the author of nine poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a novella. His most recent poetry book, Blur (The Word Works, 2023), received the Tenth Gate Prize. Individual poems have appeared in journals that include The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, and The Georgia Review.

Other poems by Doug Ramspeck in Verse Daily:
April 25, 2019:   "Gliding" "My father was suspicious..."
October 19 2015:   "Field Religion" "The old men fishing at the river..."
January 12, 2015:   "The Human Velocity" "When, last August, our neighbor 's house burned down..."
August 9, 2012:   "Starving Horse" "It is morning and no worse for it...."
March 4, 2011:   "Feral Evening" "Not the bats diving..."
September 30, 2010:   "Gorgeous Light" "We lived by a bay..."
July 23, 2009:   "Bottomlands Tongue" "And so the burning of this sun beside the pickerelweeds..."
July 16, 2009:   "Mermaid in my Fish Bowl" "I would say she was no larger..."
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" "The boy found a possum skull..."
May 17, 2008:   "Late Husband" "In her dreams, then, she imagined him as feverish...."

Books by Doug Ramspeck:

Other poems on the web by Doug Ramspeck:
"Nomads"
"One True Poem"
"The Marriage We Carried in Our Pockets"
Two poems
"open hand"
Two poems
"Cemetery Grass"
Two poems
Four poems
"My Father, Drunk, Shakes the Apple Boughs and the Stars Fall"
"the midwest sheds its skin"
Three poems
Five poems
"White Sky"

Doug Ramspeck's Website.

About Boulevard: