JOHN VUKMIROVICH

SPRING/SUMMER ISSUE #06 POET

JOHN VUKMIROVICH is an independent scholar, freelance writer, and book reviewer. In 2000, he earned his PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago; his dissertation was on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. His note, “Crossroads of the Imagination: A Possible Musical Origin for the Character of Jupiter in Poe’s ‘The Gold-Bug,’” appeared in the summer 2016 issue of The Journal of American Folklore. His book reviews have appeared in the London-based Times Literary Supplement and The Journal of American Studies. He has also published numerous op-eds in The Chicago Sun-Times on educational, environmental, and economic issues. His poetry has appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and Presence, among others.

TANKA

A week of storms broke

the drought, the rain fell in sheets,

gusts, whispers. One night,

the air mud thick, fireflies

lit up the yard with their dance.