Bio

Ron Riekki's books include My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland's Apprentice House Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot 'n' Waddle), and U.P. (Ghost Road Press). He's edited eight books, including And Here (Michigan State University Press, Independent Publisher Book Award), and The Way North (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book). He's published poetry in Rattle, Poetry Northwest, fiction in Threepenny Review, Bellevue Literary Review, nonfiction in River Teeth, New Orleans Review, and more. Right now, Riekki's listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Isle of The Dead, Symphonic Poem Op. 2.

Heavenly thick forest near my house where I grew up
is thin now, malnourished. The air
is thick with smoke. I'm
thin. The mines?—
fat as
all
hell.