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David Meischen is the author of Nopalito, Texas: Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2024) and Caliche Road Poems (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024). Anyone’s Son, from 3: A Taos Press, won Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2020. A Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, David is cofounder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press. He lives in Albuquerque, NM with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Dear Gravity May I call you Grave? An old tree falls after long weakening, after years of unseen hollowing, and it keeps falling, rotted core turning to damp dust, becoming earth. The body its own trench. At the doctor’s office, the nurse says I’ve grown shorter. Only natural. I stare h Read more of this blog post »

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	Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry by Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nopalito, Texas: Stories 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anyone's Son 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 by David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Neugebauer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas Poetry Calendar 2014 by David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cindy Huyser (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems by David Meischen (Goodreads Author) (editor), Scott Wiggerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storylandia, Issue 34: The Distance Between Here and Elsewhere: Three Stories by David Meischen (Goodreads Author), Ginger Mayerson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caliche Road Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nopalito, Texas: Stories (Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David made a comment on Anne’s review of Nopalito, Texas: Stories " I'm the author. And deliriously happy to see that your book group has read Nopalito. If it's not too presumptuous of me . . . I want to ask you how yo ...more "
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