Forrest Rapier has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Cold Mountain Review, among many others. He has received fellowships from Looking Glass Falls, Sewanee Writers Conference, and has held writing residencies at the University of Virginia and Brevard College. His debut collection, As the Den Burns, recently released with Texas Review Press.

Books by Forrest Rapier:

Other poems on the web by Forrest Rapier:
"Afterword"
"Borrowing the Last Boat"
"The Neanderthal Tongue"
"Experience Meat"
"Millennia of Heck"
"The River is a Lost Child"
"The Book of Ruth"
"Panthera"
"Floridamyth of my Friends Who Shade Gravity Black"
"After the LSD Bliss Dissolves"
"Fathermark"

About As the Den Burns:

"In this scorching debut, Forrest Rapier creates soundscapes lush as Florida. 'The word,' he writes, 'is much like the land,' and these poems are lit with trouble: a shapeshifting father whose absence imbues every line, a rowdy cast of characters with 'wild chickens for brains,' and a luminous 'I' at the center, one of the 'lightning-struck lost boys' on the Florida coast, 'keeping watch' and working to 'keep the love door ajar.' The fire burns bright in these poems, but we feel—by the end of the book—that the light by which Rapier works and keeps watch comes from him."
—Ryan Vine