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Richard Newman is the author of the poetry collection Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005), as well as several chapbooks. Read more about Richard Newman.

 

Richard's tops in St. Louis

The Riverfront Times named Richard "Best Local Poet" in the Arts and Entertainment category, home also to "Best Hair on a Local TV Personality" and "Best Art Gallery to Die in the Past Year." Find out why.

River Styx keeps on rolling

Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis' oldest literary magazine alive. It has not been an easy task. "Literature and poetry are never going to have a huge audience," concedes the 41-year-old editor of River Styx. "We're not in the checkout aisle of the grocery store — not that I expect that, but it would be fun." Read the rest of the article.

Darn poems still earning their keep

New chapbook released
Order your copy of 24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times today!

The Writer's Almanac
Garrison Keillor featured Richard's poem "Fireflies," from Borrowed Towns, on The Writer's Almanac on May 22, 2006.

 

  
         
 

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Order Borrowed Towns today

Poet Richard Newman's first full-length collection, Borrowed Towns, is available from Word Press. Read some excerpts and reviews.

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from "Crossing Schlensker Ditch"

Between Schlensker Ditch and Bosch Ditch
On 41 South, between brown fields, where
in North by Northwest the crop duster chased
Cary Grant over brittle corn stubble,
where rusty fences slouch drunkenly
into a gray horizon, a scrawl of trees—
home is a land that offers no return.
 
     
             
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