C.J. Southworth teaches in the English Department at SUNY Jefferson Community College. His work has appeared in Glitterwolf, Jonathan, Assaracus, Paterson Literary Review and many other publications. He is the recipient of both the Allen Ginsberg Award and the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. His debut poetry collection, Yours, Marilyn, will be released by Main Street Rag Press in Fall 2019.
“We have only a little time to please the living, but all eternity to love the dead.” –Sophocles He insisted on ordering squid, or whatever that nice word is they use so you don’t know you’re ordering squid, even though she said she had tried it before and didn’t like it. Not as fresh…
