Forgotten Ground Regained
Richard Pierce
ichard Pierce earned his Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at Texas Tech University. His poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, New South, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Relief, and the Birmingham Poetry Review. He has also served as Managing Editor of Iron Horse Literary Review and as Assistant Editor of Ninth Letter.
His poetry includes the alliterative free verse poems “Exhausted, Mankey Sleeps, Dreams He’s His Dead Dog, Mitch” and “Bearly” in his collection, The Book of Mankey.