School Bus Brocade

Jacob Strautmann’s collection of poetry, The Land of the Dead is Open for Business , is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2020. His work has appeared in AGNI , The Boston Globe , The Harlequin , and Salamander Magazine . He is the recipient of a 2018 Massachusetts Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Strautmann is a contributing editor for Salamander Magazine and the managing director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at Boston University, where he also teaches creative writing. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky