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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
The People’s Pandemic Prayer
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// Matthew 6: 9-13 // // / Our (Dead / Beat) Dad, / who art, I hope, / in heaven… holy / shit, man— what / the actual hell? / / Give us this…
Aww/Awe
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/ (for Martha Henning) // / At the copy machine, / we swap a couple / / phantom limb stories / impressed upon us / / by veterans’…
Scrawled Out
W. Vandoren Wheeler
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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…
W. Vandoren Wheeler
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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…
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