J.S. Absher has published two full-length books of poetry—Skating Rough Ground (Kelsay Press, 2022) and Mouth Work (St. Andrews University Press, 2016), winner of the Lena Shull Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. Absher’s poems have won awards from BYU Studies Quarterly and Dialogue, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. His poems have been published by NC Literary Review, Triggerfish Critical Review, Tar River Poetry, The McNeese Review, Irreantum, Wayfare, and others. Absher lives in Raleigh, NC, with his wife, Patti.
Hemelein Publications works:
- “Rented Room” (poem) in Further Light, Issue 1
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