Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop used to teach English at the University of Maine, where he once gave Stephen King a C+ on a composition. Now retired, he tends his enchanted Buddha garden in Bangor, Maine, with his wife and their golden retriever, Moxie.
— From November 2019
Poetry
Kenny
after my mother’s funeral standing in the receiving line just / below the altar rail shaking hands with people I hardly knew / when Kenny a face I hadn’t seen in twenty years appeared and / grabbed me and hugged me so damn hard the wind went out / of me
November 2019
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