Brian Kokensparger As Poet

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Education and Thesis

In May of 2017, I received my M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Creighton University. My thesis was called "Night Geese: Selected Poems. Here are the poems included in the thesis:

• Night Geese


• Abandoned Oil Rig in My Father's Woods


• Self-Portrait as a Canoe


• Taking Grandpa to McDonalds for Breakfast


• Hey Wind, Shake Down


• a trip at the store


• What you need to do to get a street named after you in Omaha, Nebraska


• On contemplating an upcoming trip to witness the 25th Anniversary of the Jesuit martyrs in El Salvador


• Eleven Decomposing Bodies Found in Railroad Car


• Rogue Moose


• Black Cherry Tree on the Fence Line


• Nun's Meditation, Number 173


• Becoming Undead at Prospect Hill


• Live from Prospect Hill Cemetery: Lots 833 and 834


• Rez Dog Sonnet


• Three Walks to Red Cloud's Grave


• Display Case at the UP Museum


• An American Backyard Pageant


• On My Pagan Dances Under You


• Ten Seconds Under a Raft


• Failed Harvest (to other grayed men who wear trousers)