Poem of the Week | October 09, 2017

Nicholas Molbert: “An Epistemology in Retrospect”
This week, we are excited to present a new poem by Nicholas Molbert. Molbert’s work has been published in or is forthcoming from Spillway, Fjords Review, American Literary Review, and others. He lives and writes in Central Illinois as an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
An Epistemology in Retrospect
Author’s Note:
This poem stems from my reflecting on childhood experiences, naïveté, and growing up along Louisiana’s Gulf coast. More specifically, the actions of childhood that reveal real dangers to which, in the moment, my sister and I were oblivious. Lastly, though I’ve been living and writing in an area of the country that isn’t so Catholic, it is hard to shake a Catholic bend from my worldview.
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