Eddie always says, when I see him near his garage, that he hasn’t slept for days, that he can’t be held responsible for what he might do. He says the neighbor’s cat walked all the way around the block at his heel. Eddie, from grade school, lives here with his aging parents, one brother in […]
Cameron Gearen
Cameron Gearen‘s full-length poetry collection, Some Perfect Year, came out from Shearsman Press in 2016. Her essays and poems have appeared in The Washington Post, Hippocampus, Dame Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Autofocus, The Antioch Review, Northwest Review, Green Mountains Review, Fence, River Styx, and many other journals. She has benefited from a Barbara Deming Money for Women grant. Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky selected her chapbook for publication. She was the Hemingway Writer-in-Residence from 2017-2019. She lives in River Forest, Illinois.