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P. Ivan Young

Omaha, Nebraska

P. Ivan Young is author of the full-length poetry collection Smell of Salt, Ghost of Rain (Brick House Books, 2015) and the chapbook A Shape in the Waves (Stepping Stones Press, 2008). He earned his BS in zoology from Clemson University and his MFA in poetry from the University of South Carolina; he is currently a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Nebraska, where he is an Othmer Fellow. Young received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and was the 2013 winner of the Norton Girault Literary Prize. His most recent publications are in Passages North, The Southeast Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Apple Valley Review, Blood Lotus, The Delaware Review, and Crab Orchard Review.

Column 681

Fishing for Bream

By P. Ivan Young

Column 640

Visiting the Neighborhood