Read me a poem about loss I say.
Are you on the mend? I say.
I shake my head no.
Author
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Darius Stewart’s poetry and creative nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Fourth Genre, Gargoyle, Meridian, The Potomac Review, Salamander, storySouth, Verse Daily and others. Stewart received an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin (2007) and an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa (2020). In 2021, the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame honored him with the inaugural Emerging Writer Award. He is currently a Lulu “Merle” Johnson Doctoral Fellow in English Literary Studies at the University of Iowa, where he lives in Iowa City with his dog, Fry. His poems "On the Bus" and "Poem to a Son" were previously published in his chapbook The Terribly Beautiful. Stewart’s first full-length collection of poems, Intimacies in Borrowed Light, was published in July 2022 by EastOver Press.