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Roy Bentley

Roy Bentley, a finalist for the Miller Williams prize for Walking with Eve in the Loved City, has published eight books; including American Loneliness from Lost Horse Press, who is bringing out a new & selected. He is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Cleaver, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, and Shenandoah among others. Hillbilly Guilt, his latest, won the Hidden River Arts / Willow Run Poetry Book Award and will appear next year.

By Roy Bentley

Listening to Lester Young in a Pandemic

by Roy Bentley

In one borough of a city nearly out of surgical masks, a jazz station repeats like the dream of a better country. Doctors and nurses labor around the clock, dictating a Last Will & Testament between critically-ill patients— given who we are as Americans, the respirator-rhythm alleges we triumph or perish one grim breath at

Spring 2020

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

by Roy Bentley

First off, you’re in an off-duty cabbie’s Chevy. In the front seat. A fogbound field is boundary. Through a windshield, night hovers. He’s said that that bus doesn’t run anymore, but he’ll get you there. He’s failed, he says, to make clear the fare for the thirty-mile trip. Seems not to care this is your first full

Spring 2016

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