Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. Jack's work has appeared in HAD, Heavy Feather, Pidgeonholes, The Shore, Moist, Autofocus, EcoTheo, The Hopper, Terrain, and other journals. He's also had pieces included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Literature. His latest collection is Against the Woods' Dark Trunks (Mercer University Press, 2022). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.

Other poems by Jack B. Bedell in Verse Daily:
May 28, 2021:   "Communal" by Jack B. Bedell   "Yesterday afternoon, my wife taught me..."

Books by Jack B. Bedell:

Other poems on the web by Jack B. Bedell:
"Summer Fragment, 1"
"Honey Island Swamp"
Two poems
"Mirific"
"Summer Fragment, 2"
"Swamp Thing Comes to Respect the Gators’ Refusal to Adapt"
"Limitrophe, with Cairns"
"Swamp Thing Gives Longfellow His Due About a Couple of Things"
"Swamp Thing Decides to Give Prayer a Chance"
"Swamp Thing Stumbles Into A Wrestling Promo"
"Swamp Thing Finds Himself at the Crossroads of Science and Morality"
Two poems
Three poems
Four poems
Two poems
"The Gacy Murder House"
Two poems
"Porch Song"
"Stink"
"Memory: Bats"
"There Is No Train but the Tracks Will Lead You There"
"Augury"
Eigth poems

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Editors: Luke Hankins * Nathan Poole * Karen Tucker