D. E. Kern
D.E. Kern is an author and educator from Bethlehem, Pa. He worked in newspapers for fifteen years before shifting to Creative Writing in graduate school. His writing has appeared in Appalachian Review, Big Muddy, CRATE, The Examined Life, Mission at Tenth, Rio Grande Review and The Owen Wister Review among others. He teaches English at Arizona Western College. When he is not teaching or writing, he enjoys fishing and traveling with his lovely wife, Neesha.
PoetryFirst Light
This sunrise breaks spells, lies born from shadows, and God’s hands are wrapped in smoke.
Poetry, PoetryTwilight Cinema
The sky is backlit by these afterthoughts. The golden hour and dusk shake hands then go their separate ways, but not before burning an…
PoetryDrift the Corners
Here is to a year of living dangerously because those who dole out portions miss the whole point that dawns do not rise with…
PoetryThe Music of Another Place
Great cities hold their rivers and their jazz in high regard, trust secrets to the cattail-covered caves along the bank; it’s miles beneath the…
PoetrySpeaking of Rivers
We crossed the Ohio at Wheeling, ducked past the tourist trappings of the Steel City like two outlaws, made our Hollywood escape, determined to…
PoetryHolding the Center
The day I learned of my student’s suicide, I walked five miles, the first three to remember him, the last two to feel his…
PoetryMediums
There’s a pencil scratch across the sky, a jagged mark from a passing plane, and a placid river where I like to think of…
PoetryWhy I Am Moving to Ireland
Because I, like Dedalus, cannot pray to my mother’s liking and North Sea fog is this poet’s filter. Since my mind seems predisposed to…
PoetryGolden Silence
From this angle, a day’s last rays make embers of cattails bent in supplication to an unrepentant wind trying to force the Colorado into…
PoetryChromium-24/7
They tore down a part of my hometown last week, imploded it to be precise, dissolved it from the inside as with cancer. A…
PoetryThe Mist on the Water
He pointed it out like a carnival oddity a bearded lady or monkey playing guitar, perhaps an albino deer or lion with the head…