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Ryan Van Winkle

Ryan Van Winkle
Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, live artist, podcaster, and critic living in Edinburgh. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, and The Australian Book Review. His second collection is due out in 2015 from Penned in the Margins. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2012.

The Heart

By Ryan Van Winkle
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014)

is a red and blood full thing a leach trilling in the chest puffing and blowing but then there are souls and russian cities full of those light as sheets some nights it seems our bodies lie upon nothing but electricity crackling between our atriums our vast hemispheres, our hearts. But a heart is only… [Read More]

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