Caley O'Dwyer
Caley O'Dwyer

Caley O’Dwyer teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles and was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. His poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ekphrasis, Washington Square, and other venues, including the Tate Modern Museum in London. He is a winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and a recipient of a Helene Wurlitzer grant for poetry. His first book, Full Nova, was published by Orchises Press.

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Toys in Trouble

The present didn’t happen / until it was presented.

Martin was born to jiggle and he did. Soundly he slept on the ultra-soft mattress of manmade beliefs, making sense where there was none, and that was fun. Each of his many hairs sang a number of when the river was overcome. The apple bit, the gods conked, the flickering light captured the exhumation. Little […]

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Separation and Packaging

A poem by Caley O’Dwyer

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