John GoodeJohn Goode is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. His books include GRADUATING FROM ETERNITY and BEAUTY AND THE UNREQUITED LANDSCAPE published by Rain Mountain Press in 2013 and 2019. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals including, Ratle, Skidrow Penthouse, LIT, Mudfish, Slipstream, Axe Factory Review, Bottle of Smoke Press, Afterhours, Waiting for the Bus, and Arsenic Lobster, among others. He was first runner up for the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle. He lives and works in Chicago, where he has collaborated and performed with various musicians such as Grazyna Auguscick and Tim Haldeman on the albums "Man Behind the Sun" and "Open Water as a Child" (for the Flint Michigan water crisis), and at venues such as The Chopin Theater, Sleeping Village, and The Museum of Contemporary Art. Read More Read Less