Ron Houchin is a retired public school teacher who lives on the banks of the Ohio River. He has three books published by Salmon poetry: Death and The River (1997), Moveable Darkness (2002), and Museum Crows (2009). His other books, Among Wordless Things (2004) and Birds in the Tops of Winter Trees (2008), were published by Wind publications. His awards include Appalachian-Book-of-the-Year-in-Poetry, a National Society of Arts and Letters Prize, an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, a poetry prize from Indiana University, and a Writers’ Digest Award.
Ron Houchin
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)