Mike White
NOAH
Only once they are ant-sized,
only once he has measured them
between thumb and forefinger,
does he wave
and wave his callused hand
like a metronome
back toward the shrinking
human shore.
MIKE WHITE lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah. His second collection, Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017), was awarded the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Yale Review.
ISSUE TEN features poetry by David Baker, Leila Chatti, Adam Clay, Cynthia Cruz, Lightsey Darst, Melissa Ginsburg, Johannes Göransson, John Kinsella, Joanna Klink, Mark Levine, Cate Marvin, Sara Lupita Olivares, January Gill O’Neil, Robert Ostrom, Allan Peterson, Kevin Prufer, Dean Rader, Natasha Rao, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Silano, Stella Wong, and Julia Wong Kcomt; fiction by Amber Caron, Sarah Rose Etter, and Lee Upton; nonfiction by Lesley Jenike and Arra Lynn Ross; a film essay by Mee Ok Icaro; Mary Ruefle in conversation with Mark Wunderlich; and a selection of erasures and collages by Mary Ruefle.