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Craig Beaven

Craig Beaven has a BA in English from the University of Kentucky and an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. His book reviews and interviews are regularly featured in Blackbird. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Limestone Review, Nidus, and Notre Dame Review.

A Brilliant Flash of Light

31 July 2005
Vol. 5, No. 2
poetry

It's how Hemingway dies

in the children's biography

I found in the public library, white death

like a cloud descending…

The Smallest Woman in the World

28 July 2005
Vol. 5, No. 2
poetry

…you know immediately

she won't live long: body a fourth

of our bodies, cut off below the chest,

legs hanging like cloth. African, late teens…