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W. Vandoren Wheeler



W. Vandoren Wheeler Bio Note: W. Vandoren Wheeler was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He cracked his head open in various ways in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th grades; he began writing seriously in the 8th grade. He has published poems in various journals, including H_ngM_n, Forklift, and Swink. He currently lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon. His manuscript The Accidentalist won the 2012 Dorothy Brunsman Prize. Please visit vandorenwheeler.com for more details.

Recent Work
Quien Sabe Dos Lenguas…
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Quien Sabe Dos Lenguas Vale Por Dos(“Whoever knows two languages is worth two people”) // One American Dollar is worth19 Mexican Pesos / The favor…
Scrawled Out
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The hate note I shouted // at the back wall of my skull / I angrily over-edited / / so long the spittle / I intended to smear / across…
Philosophical Indigestion
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Neglected sludge snails / up my Basement walls. / / Kitchen floats above, / on its sheen of everyclean. / / A slow swirling con- / fuses the…
UGLY LADY
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O, the puzzling wedding ring clinging to the finger of an actively unattractive woman … a comical kiss distorts her face. An unfilmable lust /…
Metonymy, Wyoming (after Philip Seymour…
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The only way I can see / my sadness clearly is if / he plays me this morning. / / He pushes back from a piano, / adlibs a confusing speech…
JOY/DIVISION
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My center was soggy / coal composed of dead / hopes compressed in the peat / bog my chest was. / I kept my scrawny arms / folded in an X over…
HOW I STOPPED THE MASSACRE
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/ I turned their desks into kid-sized / tanks impervious to bullets, knives, / IED’s, mean words, and bad news. / / / I turned the…
My Definition of Rape
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(see also, Emily Kendal Frey's "My Definition of Rape") / / I have an engine larger than I am / Little candy pieces I…
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