John McCarthy reading in Seattle at AWP 2023

Featured Publications

32 Poems:Our Once Content Father Recalls a Party He Once Hosted Before He Had a Child to Lose

Alaska Quarterly Review: “Many Savage Things”

American Literary Review:Noise Falling Backwards

Best New Poets 2015: “Definitions of Body

BOOTH:Slag Dust and Dead Leaves

Cincinnati Review: “For the Armadillo, My Sympathy”

Copper Nickel:North End, 1997

Diagram: “Our Once Content Father Shares His Wisdom Regarding the Ever Expanding Isolation Between People in Adulthood”

Gettysburg Review: “Even in a Far Away Place the Work Day is Long”

The Journal: “There Are Angels In The Door Frame And They Are Us”

Hayden’s Ferry Review:Flyover Country

Nimrod: “The Little Egypt Dive Bar Elegy”

North American Review: “A Good Marriage”

Pleiades:For the Possum, My Sympathy

Quarterly West:Constructing a Museum

TriQuarterly:Scared Violent Like Horses” and “As If The Shirt Were Standing Up Straight, Hand Raised

On April 23rd, 2019, “Scared Violent Like Horses” was featured on Poetry Daily.