"For a Singer" by Stuart Dischell

[audio mp3="http://barnstormjournal.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/for-a-singerdishcell.mp3"][/audio]All those years waiting for goodNews that would changeYour life. It never came.Others heard it.Others were changed.But you kept on anyway.That's what makes you remarkableAmong the unremarkableIn your boots and skirtOn the bus outside the show.Took some years for the blues to become your own.Stuart Dischell is the author of four books of poetry; Good Hope Road, a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection, (Viking, 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin, 1996), Dig Safe (Penguin, 2003), and Backwards Days (Penguin, 2007), and two chapbooks; Animate Earth (Jeanne Duval Editions, 1988), and Touch Monkey (Forklift, Ink, 2012). He has also received honors from the Pushcart Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and has been published in The AtlanticThe New RepublicAgniPloughsharesSlate, and The Kenyon Review, among others. His anthologized work includes Essential Pleasures, Hammer and Blaze, and Good Poems. He is currently a professor of Creative Writing for the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as well as a contributing editor for the Alaska Quarterly Review.

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