T.J. Blackburn

Written between 1998 and 2003, most of the poems here once existed as part of a planned collection called "a measured distance." Many from that original manuscript are now lost. Those that survived are featured here, unaltered. These poems "are the little ghosts of children" that haunt the poet "like pictures displayed on a mantle." T.J. Blackburn hopes their publication will silence those ghosts.