John W. Evans is the author of the chapbooks, No Season and Zugzwang. His essays and poems appear in The Missouri Review, Slate, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere, and his poetry manuscript, Young Widower, was a finalist for the 2011 National Poetry Series. Evans is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where he was previously a Stegner Fellow.
They told my father three hours. Ideally, she would have needed to get to the hospital within three hours for the best chance of recovery from the stroke.
The recent glut of apocalyptic novels has encouraged readers’ desires to become armchair spectators to doom. Our front-row seats at the end-of-days enable us to cheer for the scrappy protagonist…