The notion state traveled from room
to room before the public square
conquered within ear-shot.
From moods to zeitgeist the green patch
amassed an empire that colonized
the internet peoples, tearing down walls,
dissolving borders, hemispheres.
By Rich Murphy
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Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Credits include the 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award for his book-length manuscript “Voyeur,” a National Book Award nominee; The Apple in the Monkey Tree a book of poems by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press and Phoems for Mobile Vices by BlazeVox; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, Trespass, New Letters, Pank, Segue, Big Bridge, Pemmican, foam:e, and Confrontation; and essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, Fringe, Big Toe Review, and Journal of Ecocriticism. Derek Walcott has remarked for the cover of his book The Apple in the Monkey Tree: “Mr. Murphy is a very careful craftsman in his work, a patient and testing intelligence, one of those writers who knows precisely what he wants his style to achieve. His poetry is quiet but packed, carefully wrought, not surrealistically wild, and its range not limited but deliberately narrow. It takes aim.” He now teachs writing at VCU.
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