At Nero’s Circus

Ciaran Berry is the author of the poetry collections The Dead Zoo (Gallery Books, 2014) and The Sphere of Birds (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), which won the Crab Orchard Award. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, The Threepenny Review, AGNI, Ecotone, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. (updated 6/2017)