https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-04-21 https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/events daily 0.75 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/3458f644-1eed-4d2e-89b5-cbce8c824e79/Rhinobd+%281%29.jpg Events - Evanston History Center April 30th, 6:30pm. Evanston, Illinois. Rhino Editors Reads 50th Anniversary Party, with Chris Solis Green, Gail Goepfert, Jacob Saenz, Kimberly Dixon-Mayes, and MRae Henry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/c2e6a2ec-c23c-483a-ad48-e5fc70b0cadc/BookCellar_Chicago_02.jpg Events - The Book Cellar May 15th, 6:30pm, Chicago, Illinois Northwestern University SPS MFA Faculty Reading, with Rachel Swearingen, Naeem Murr, Donna Seamen, and James Stewart III. https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/poetry daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/3ff60e78-7273-413d-a429-1354a471c75c/IMG_0200.jpg Poetry - 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” https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/books daily 0.75 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/1554423181144-RLWQ0BX9MR8KXMS93NQ9/ScaredViolent_150dpi_RGB.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/1554397220712-EW88I0KI7YFAFQQSZ2CK/ScaredViolent_150dpi_RGB.jpg Books Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/1554397252470-LB2EUJMZOVU0NQ7FPL6Z/Ghost%2BCounty%2BSpread%2B3%2B-%2B1-10-16.jpg Books Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Chicago Review of Books https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/about daily 1.0 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/1554423151120-YLWTQCBXKNGT66VYGFJ4/John_McCarthy_Headshot_Color.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/1587167845126-ELRSL2IP9KLU895EZTXD/John_McCarthy_Headshot.jpg About Photo Credit: Adele Fammereé https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/interviews daily 0.75 2021-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/00c6c96e-8b13-4bf5-85e9-ff29d5f1d1ab/IMG_9167.jpg Interviews - Featured Conversations The Adroit Journal: “Scared Violent Like Horses: A Conversation with John McCarthy” American Literary Review: “Reaching for Epiphanies: an Interview with John McCarthy” Chicago Review of Books: “Love Letter to the Midwest: John McCarthy’s Ghost County” https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/media daily 0.75 2023-11-07 https://johnmccarthypoetry.com/chapbook daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca3c680a09a7e4ffba4fbe3/9b907762-aec2-4335-9607-933d93999e6e/Screenshot+2026-01-09+at+3.38.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Chapbook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.