W. F. Lantry, from Volume 4:2

W. F. Lantry’s poetry collections are The Terraced Mountain (Little Red Tree 2015), The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tree 2012), winner of a 2013 Nautilus Award in Poetry, and The Language of Birds (Finishing Line 2011). He received his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. His honors include the National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry, the Patricia Goedicke Prize, the Crucible Editors' Prize, the Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (Israel), the Potomac Review Prize, and the Old Red Kimono Prize. His work appears widely online and in print. He currently works in Washington, DC. and is an associate fiction editor at JMWW.

Lantry contributed two poems to the latest volume of Synesthesia, "Self-control" and "Widdershins." The following is an excerpt from the former:

But mostly I must find a cleft and lean

away from the cliff face, moving between
solidity of stone and open air—
the line dividing them hard to define
exactly when the torn sky's darkening
as hollow forms fracture and recombine,
until those clouds, breaking, restore the glare
and we refind our passage overhead.

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Photo by Ellen Cannon (2013)

Navigate to pages 44 and 45 of the newest volume of Synesthesia to read Lantry's inspiring work today!