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.