Ace Boggess of Huntington, West Virginia, is author of Displaced Hours, a novel (gattopublishing.com) and a collection of poems, The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (circlemagazine.com/beautifulgirl); and editor of the anthology Wild Sweet Notes II: More Great Poetry from West Virginia.  His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Atlanta Review, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, and many similar journals in print and online.

As for what keeps him writing, he says, “I write poetry to take photographs.  When crafting verse, I’m trying to capture an image, a scene or an idea that’s important to me at the time.  My poetry books are my photo albums.  Through them I can relive those parts of my past and, if I’ve done my job well, share them with others in a way that they can see what I’ve seen or know and understand what was on my mind at a particular moment in time.  My notebook is the only camera I have, so if I stopped writing poems, I’d have no tether left to my past.”

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

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