John McKernan – who grew up in Omaha Nebraska – is now retired after teaching 41 years at Marshall University. He lives – most of the year – in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press, which publishes an annual poetry magazine and publishes each year a first book of poetry in the ABZ Poetry Prize Contest. His most recent work is a selected poems book Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Journal, Antioch Review, Guernica, Field, and many other magazines.
Below is an excerpt from his poem "Tomato," the first piece in Volume 2:2.
I don't think this music
will hurt you at all Roy
Orbison & in a few moments Emmy
Lou Harris It does something to
my heart Somehow it can
coax memories to rise that lie
buried like fine white roots in clay
searching for water Anywhere Somehow
Still connected to the sunlight
Even the moon has tentacles
Silent mirror in the sky's black ink
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To read this poem in full and the others contributed by this fabulous poet, peek inside Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 2:2.
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