Ron Riekki

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A friend says to me, "You don't have the type of disability that gets likes"

and I ask what he means
and he disappears.  My
favorite poets are all dead.

Ron Riekki has been awarded a Michigan Notable Book, The Best Small Fictions, Shenandoah Fiction Prize, IPPY Award, Red Rock Film Fest Award, Best of the Net finalist, Très Court International Film Festival Audience Award and Grand Prix, Dracula Film Festival Vladutz Trophy, Rhysling Anthology inclusion, and 2022 Pushcart Prize. Riekki co-edited The Many Lives of The Purge, which is a nominee for The Eiffel Award: The Year's Best Books on Film. Right now, Riekki's listening to Billy Strings' "Cabin Song," although it just ended and now Riekki's listening to Drahla's "Stimulus for Living."