Read sample poems and follow links to the original magazines and journals. 

If you'd rather watch and listen rather than read, here are two online readings and an interview:

The podcast Books and Brews interviewed me for National Poetry Month: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xearvx6JL_w&t=480s

My readings:
08:12 "The Pear Tree" and "Remembering Clara"
23:06 "What I Knew and When"
43:09 "Calendar Years"
Interview highlights:
16:35 The business of being a poet
19:07 Travels to France, Belize, and Taiwan
30:36 Blowing the Whistle: family issues and corporate greed
35:11 Links to the Nixon scandal
40:46 How ancient Rome influenced a poem
50:01 From The Deserted Wife to a thwarted lynching and Jim Crow
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NCLR, "Patient Doe Escapes the Asylum and Goes on the Town." You can watch the short video of my reading or read it for yourself.   

You can also watch a longer reading of poems from Skating Rough Ground in the Book Launch series hosted by Redheaded Stepchild. The text can be purchased from Amazon or directly from me. Email me at [email protected]. I accept PayPal, Venmo, and checks. 

"Every time I read a poem by Stan Absher I feel a pinch of my soul rolled between the fingers of God. Softened and warmed, ready to be restored and molded that much closer to the shape it was meant for."--Bill Griffin, "Kissing Cousins" (https://griffinpoetry.com/2021/09/24/kissing-cousins/​)

The illustration, by Katie LaRosa, is from Night Weather.