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Bernd Sauermann teaches writing, literature, and film at Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He is the poetry editor at Whole Beast Rag, an online (and sometimes print) journal of art, ideas, and literature. His work has been published in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, McSweeney’s, Southern Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, The Kansas Quarterly Review of Literature, and many other publications. He has a chapbook entitled Diesel Generator (Horse Less Press 2013), and his first full-length collection, Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song, will be published in 2014 by Mad Hat Press.
Lead image: “Happy Birthday Amanda!” (via Flickr user Bart)
Wonderfully written!