Selected from 400 manuscripts in our chapbook open-reading period, Ryler Dustin's Something Bright will be published this fall! It is available for pre-order here; two poems from the collection, "Trailer Park Psalm" and "Love Poem," are featured in our new issue.
"The exquisitely haunting poems in Something Bright are steeped in memory and longing and reverence for the world, imperfect as it may be. ... Dustin finds something precious even in 'the rampant damages of love' and celebrates how 'the forbidden holds inside of it the holy.'" —Grace Bauer, author of Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems
"[Dustin's poems] are offered with a gentle quiet that gives way to the quiet in me ... similar to how a walk in the forest allows us to join the conversation of silence that passes between the trees."—Anis Mojgani, Poet Laureate of Oregon
"With real clarity, these poems meditate on the persistence of memory, the difficulties of love, and the curiosities of ecology, always offering us voyages toward knowledge, awe, and an invigorated sense of self." —Kevin Prufer, author of The Art of Fiction: Poems
Ryler Dustin is the author of the poetry collection Heavy Lead Birdsong from Write Bloody Publishing. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam, and his poems appear in American Life in Poetry, The Best of Button Poetry, Gulf Coast, Verse Daily, The Best of Iron Horse, and elsewhere.
