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Fritz Ward

Fritz Ward's poems have appeared in more than fifty journals, including American Arts and Commentary, AGNI, Blackbird, Salt Hill, No Tell Motel, and DIAGRAM. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he served as a poetry editor for the Greensboro Review. He currently lives in Philadelphia and works at Swarthmore College.

Letter to Youngstown

30 March 2009
Vol. 9, No. 1
poetry

In between murders,

the night sighs with rain. I keep thinking,

when I should be weeping. A plastic bag tangled

in the low shrubs. A grocery cart alone

in the parking lot. Close and closer—

Love Letter with Tsunami Diorama

27 March 2009
Vol. 9, No. 1
poetry, prose poem

After she left, I found the Collins glass of table wine on the windowsill. It counterweighed the nightbird's absence. After she left the second time, I lit a candle in our churchyard…