Ace Boggess, Author at

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Ace Boggess

Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy, I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.

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Notes for My Autobiographer (and other poems)

I did. I didn’t. I did nothing.
I did what I was told.
I did wrong but in the right way,

Poetry

Welcome to Rock Haul

We were led out front, stripped of our khakis, and provided with orange jumpsuits two sizes too big so we billowed and glowed like inflatable men in front of car lots.

Fiction