Great River Review
Issue 68
Issue 68
PINK POETRY PRIZE, POETRY, FINALIST
Ariana Benson
About Solace and My Need to Shuck Oysters FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PINK POETRY PRIZE
FICTION
Pardeep Toor
Dinner Party Hans and Neelam arrived late to her parents’ lake house. The silence and stillness of the neighborhood bothered Hans. It was eerie compared to the lively overflow of immigrants and shi
NONFICTION
CMarie Fuhrman
BOOK REVIEW
Joseph Holt
PROTEST AND PRAYER: A REVIEW OF MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS’S  WORLDLY THINGS Milkweed Editions, 2021. 88 pages. $22.00. The title Worldly Things  might suggest fleeting pleasures or petty

POETRY

Of Fortress and Haunt

 After “Cleopatra,” a sculpture by Clara Hoag, Fired Clay, Oxide Wash, 21.5” x 7.5” x 8.5,” 2016.

Day is hollowing

a nightmare, 

a head 

with city atop: 

no hair, 

no eyes, 

no ears,

only a nose and a mouth. 

What to say.

By the foundation, 

something perched, 

pinned,

something seeped 

free, 

a voice in this 

darkened landscape.  

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About the author

Daniel Lassell is the author of Spit (Michigan State University Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Emerging Poetry Prize selected by G. Calvocoressi, as well as a chapbook, Ad Spot (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2021). His recent poetry appears in the Southern Humanities Review, River Styx, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Pinch, and Prairie Schooner. Growing up, he raised llamas and alpacas on a farm in Kentucky. Today, he lives with his family in Colorado. Visit his website at www.daniel-lassell.com.