Tag: David Welper

Three Poems by David Welper

Reversals When I was a kid, my sister helped me button my shirts. We’d stand in front of a full-length mirror and I’d try to figure it out. Try to figure out mirror images. That’s really what she was teaching me. To look at myself. “What you see in the mirror is kinda the reverse…
Poetry Review: David Welper Reads Ben Mirov’s A Few Ideas from My Blackbox

Question: if you’re in a life-or-death situation, what would be the thoughts—no, ideas—going around in your head? Or, as Ben Mirov asks in his latest chapbook, A Few Ideas from My Blackbox, “Can you imagine a whippoorwill?” Mirov’s chapbook presents poetically ideological and existential questions in literal and figurative spaces. Each poem is short (one…