Doug Ramspeck is the author of ten poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a novella. His most recent book, Smoke Memories (2025), received the Lena Shull Book Award. Individual poems have appeared in journals that include The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Sun, and The Georgia Review.

Other poems by Doug Ramspeck in Verse Daily:
March 31, 2024:   "Bottomlands Dream" "The boy fell from the Monahegnee Bridge..."
September 23, 2023:   "That Summer" "when the mercenaries came to live with us..."
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...."

Other poems on the web by Doug Ramspeck:
"Bottomlands Dream"
"catechism of the skull"
"Crow Memory"
"Prefigured Hour"
"The Long Dead"
"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.

Poetry Editors: Sarah Brockhaus * Caroline Chavatel * John A. Nieves
Other poems by The Shore in Verse Daily:
January 17, 2025:   "Heartbeat Sound Machine" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
January 16, 2025:   "The Bullets Are Thinking About My Body Again" by Michael Okafor
January 14, 2025:   "The Physics of It" by Brian Satrom
October 3, 2024:   "The Last Love Letter of Marie Curie" by Ash Bowen
September 29, 2024:   "Weary of the world, you play Starfield" by Gus Peterson

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