First Gun

Colin Pope is the author of the poetry collections Prayer Book for the New Heretic (NYQ Books, 2023) and Why I Didn’t Go to Your Funeral (Tolsun Books, 2019). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, AGNI, Rattle, The Best New Poets, Third Coast, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Slate, and elsewhere. He is assistant director of creative writing at Northwestern University and serves on the editorial boards of Nimrod International, RHINO, and TriQuarterly. He lives in Chicago. (updated 10/2024)