The Absent Father

Matthew Sumpter is the author of the poetry collection Public Land (University of Tampa Press, 2018), which won the Anita Claire Scharf Award. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Best New Poets, AGNI, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A resident of Luling, Louisiana, he is visiting assistant professor at Tulane University. (updated 9/2019)