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Chad Abushanab

Chad Abushanab is the author of The Last Visit, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, published by Autumn House Press in 2019. His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, the Believer, and 32 Poems. He earned his PhD in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University. He lives in Iowa City.

Here on Earth

The field behind our house tonight / reminds me of an empty bed / with drifts of snow like wrinkled sheets / and shadows where you laid your head.