Anthony Madrid
Anthony Madrid

ANTHONY MADRID lives in Victoria, Texas. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Fence, Harvard Review, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. His two books are I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (Canarium, 2012) and Try Never (Canarium, 2017). A "children's book for adults," called There Was an Old Man with a Springbok, is scheduled to appear, from Prelude Books, in 2019.

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Birthday Poem for Roma Cady Macpherson Wilson 2 January 2019, ætatis suæ XV

On beauty we must pay a tax, no matter how much we’re earning. If God gave the swallow nothing else, he gave it swiftness in turning. A boyfriend is a solemn thing. His brain is bad; his clothes, mismatched. In Ghana, Death is a skeleton, too, but the ears are still attached. Its ears are […]

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