Poems by Ace Boggess and Mark Mansfield

Ace Boggess reads his poem "Anybody Raptured Yet?" and Mark Mansfield reads his poem "The Tryst."

Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble.

Mark Mansfield is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Strangers Like You, Soul Barker, and Greygolden, and one chapbook, Notes from the Isle of Exiled Imaginary Playmates (all published by Chester River Press). His poems have appeared in The Adirondack Review, Anthropocene, Bayou, Fourteen Hills, The High Window, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Iota, London Grip, Magma, Measure, Obsessed with Pipework, Peacock Journal, Salt Hill Journal, Sarasvati, Tulane Review, Visitant, and elsewhere. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a former musician and publications specialist. Currently, he lives in upstate New York.

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