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Charles Cantrell, a retired English professor and power lifter, has published many poems in dozens of literary magazines, from Poetry Northwest and Southern Poetry Review to The Literary Review, MARGIE and others, He has new poems in Stoneboat, and The Hurricane Review, with others forthcoming in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Paterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, The South Carolina Review, and others.


Charles Cantrell in our archives
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13 Apr 2026

...fury tongued, we lash the breeze with our foxing song
From my broken streets and crumbling towers; Sterilized my self-haunted hospitals
Every single time, the Skiin™ gave me a rash. I scratched. I scratched so deeply that I clawed through the aug and into my own skin and then I tore out chunks of that too.
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