Fred Dings’s books of poetry include Eulogy for a Private Man (TriQuarterly Books), After the Solstice (Orchises Press), and two chapbooks, Vespers and The Bruised Sky. The poems featured here are part of his newly completed third full-length collection, not yet submitted for publication. Dings teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina.
Nacogdoches, Texas. Stephen F. Austin University Press. 2020. 112 pages.
ENJOYABLE AND INSIGHTFUL, Fred Dings’s The Four Rings consists of striking images that accompany bot...
Gillie Rhodes, “Log pile,” November 7, 2009
Late Autumn
A butterfly searches our garden plants for blossoms I don’t see. Flitting, almost lurching, it lands at last on a barren branch as if exha...
Illustration by Ciaran Duffy/Flickr
The Blue Whale
Our five-year-old daughter bubbles with laughteras she bounces on her bed, pure joy flashingin her eyes like the glint of fingerlings in sunlit wav...