Tyler Robert Sheldon

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Against the Dark: Road PoemsBenger and Sheldon team up for this split investigating the power of life on the road, with the focus of high beams on country roads and the squealing tires of sudden veering, these poems will take you for a ride you won't want to end. Gritty, potent and earnest, these two poets work together to create a wrenching tale. bios: James Benger (Derek) is a father, husband and writer. His work has been featured in several publications. He is the author of two fiction ebooks: Flight 776 (2012) and Jack of Diamonds (2013), two chapbooks of poetry: As I Watch You Fade (EMP, 2016) and You've Heard It All Before (GigaPoem, 2017), and one split book of poetry with Jason Baldinger: Little Fires Hiding (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018). He is a member of the Riverfront Readings Committee in Kansas City, and is the founder of the 365 Poems In 365 Days online poetry workshop and Editor-in-Chief of the subsequent anthology series. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and son. Tyler Robert Sheldon (Rex) has four books, including the poetry collection Driving Together (Meadowlark, 2018) and the chapbook Consolation Prize (Finishing Line, 2018). He received the 2016 Charles E. Walton Essay Award and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Pleiades, Quiddity, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other venues. Sheldon holds an MA in English from Emporia State University and is an MFA candidate at McNeese State University. He lives in Baton Rouge and is married to the artist Alex Arceneaux.

Tyler Robert Sheldon's first full-length poetry collection is a gem, a culmination of years of study and effort. As an MA student Tyler impressively published more than forty poems individually, demonstrating both his industry and his ambition, his talent and grit. With his MFA in Creative Writing currently in progress and this book complete, Tyler takes the next step as a poet and educator. With this collection, his audience and reach quickly extend. Tyler's life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and he charts some of his journey in verse in this book. He does so with hope and pluck, with a kind of simple, clear vision. What he sees, we see. from the foreword, by Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019 Tyler Robert Sheldon's Driving Together excavates a family history and maps its place in Kansas with a storyteller's mind and a poet's precision. These poem's honor Sheldon's identical twin brother who died after a "small handful of hours," and give a language for the spaces we make for the lives that were too short: "I see you behind my eyelids, and touch / you as I pluck a leaf from concrete." Sheldon writes to illuminate how loss defines a place-"Our best scenery / is not on the ground"-and in doing so, preserves what is fleeting. Ruth Awad, author of Set to Music a Wildfire