poems
are not meant

to
impress you.

they
are written

to
help me

make it
thru the night.

Selected byNolcha Fox
Image credit:Nathan Anderson

In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 35 books (29 volumes of poetry, 2 novels, 3 volumes of non-fiction and a children’s book). He has also had more than 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is widely considered to be a master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry. His latest books are TWENTY FOUR POEMS and SELECTED POEMS: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. A second volume of his poetry (Poezite Qe Kullojne Gjak) was just released in Europe, translated into Albanian by Fadil Bajraj.