Matthew Sumpter is the author of the poetry collection Public Land (University of Tampa Press, 2018), which won the Anita Claire Scarf Award. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, AGNI, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. His critical prose has appeared in College English, and his short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train and Best Microfiction. A graduate of the MFA program at the Ohio State University and the Creative Writing Ph.D. program at Binghamton University, he is currently a Professor of Practice in the English Department at Tulane University, where he serves as Faculty Director of the Writing Center. He lives in south Louisiana with his family.

POETRY

Identities

By MATTHEW SUMPTER

It's usually right / to say You are lost, when you is so many of us,