The Only Lesson - Believer Magazine

Logger

You have reached your article limit

Sign up for a digital subscription and continue reading all new issues, plus our entire archives, for just $1.50/month.

Already a subscriber? Sign in

contributor

contributor

Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018). His poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Guernica, he is the founder of Back Draft, an interview series about poetry and revision. He teaches at Rutgers.

More by Ben Purkert

More Reads

Dumb Fights I’ve Had With My Live-In Boyfriend

Amy Kurzweil

Call for Help

Niela Orr

Distancing #5: Complete Piano Works

Brandon Wilner

More