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Self-Portrait as My Beard

An iPoem

by Frank Giampietro

            Dogs shit in the shore grass
where children work to earn

        a copper piece a turd.

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iPoemsFrank Giampietro

Frank Giampietro is an American poet and the author of the collection Begin Anywhere, for which he received a Florida Book Award. He holds an MA from Washington College, an MFA from Vermont College, and a PhD in English from Florida State University. Giampietro lives in Farmington, Maine, with his wife and two children and works as the managing editor of Alice James Books.

Winter 2012

Winter 2012


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