Charles Rafferty

Charles Rafferty is an American poet. In 2009 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, O: Oprah Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares, among other magazines, websites, and anthologies. He co-directs Albertus Magnus College's MFA in Creative Writing program, and teaches at the Westport Writers’ Workshop. As of 2021, he lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. He began writing fiction around his late forties. He views himself as someone who "primarily...writes impressionistic, associative prose poems."

Books

Poetry Collections The Wave That Will Beach Us Both (Still Waters Press, 1994) The Man on the Tower (University of Arkansas Press, 1995); winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award The Bog Shack (Picadilly Press, 1996) A Darkness With Brighter Stars (Picadilly Press, 2000) Where the Glories of April Lead (Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001) A Trayful of Brimming Martinis (Picadilly Press, 2003) During the Beauty Shortage (M2 Press, 2005) A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006) The Unleashable Dog (Steel Toe Books, 2014) DIMINUTION (Paper Nautilus Press, 2016) The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions, 2017) Something An Atheist Might Bring Up At a Cocktail Party (Mayapple Press, 2018) Appetites (Clemson University Press, 2018) The Problem with Abundance (Grayson Books, 2019) Somebody Who Knows Somebody (Gold Wake Press Collective, 2021) A Cluster of Noisy Planets (BOA, 2021)

Short-story collections Saturday Night at Magellan's (Fomite, 2013) Somebody Who Knows Somebody (Gold Wake, 2021)

Novel Moscodelphia (Woodhall Press, 2021)