Rustin Larson's fiction has appeared in Delmarva Review, Wapsipinicon Almanac, Tower Journal, and The Iowa Source. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Iowa Review, North American Review, The Penn Review and Poetry East. He is the author of Bum Cantos (Blue Light Press), The Philosopher Savant (Glass Lyre Press) and Pavement, winner of the Blue Light Poetry Prize for 2016.

Other poems by Rustin Larson in Verse Daily:
August 20, 2022:   "Trolls" "I missed a whole day. Now..."
October 12, 2021:   "Denouement" "There could be worse things than to die in your sleep or in a haze of morphine...."
October 8, 2020:   "A Strange Love Poem" "Roses are forgetting raining days for Naples, I'm afraid...."
December 24, 2019:   "Berryman: December: The Shore" "Each day I come to the end of this pier..."
May 5, 2019:   "Syrian Girl Crossing the Border from Greece" "The road, as I recall, was a pitted moonscape of chalk..."
October 5, 2018:   "Creature From The Black Lagoon" "I am guilty of eating a chocolate chip muffin...."
June 5, 2017:   "Pavement 5" "The pallbearer..."
May 4, 2016:   "The Philosopher Savant Contemplates the Dangerous Sun" "The tinsel under which I showered this morning..."
February 6, 2014:   "Damaged Enough" "I still my heart and I can hear you..."
February 20, 2013:   "The Philosopher Savant Again Dreams of War" "Insurgencies on boundaries of garden..."
September 15, 2002:  "The Gerbils" "Happily busy in the middle of the night..."

Books by Rustin Larson:

Other poems on the web by Rustin Larson:
Two poems
"Poem With First Line from W.S. Merwin"
"Bum Canto 1"
"The Carter Family Gets Famous"
Eight poems
"Breakfast on the Terrace"
"Mysterious Island"
Two poems
Five poems
Six poems
"One Cup of Tea"
Seven poems
"Butter Cow"
"Circle of Fifths"

Rustin Larson's Blog.

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