‘Bed’

Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook of poems, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019) and is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in The New York Times , Poetry , Ploughshares , and Best New Poets 2020 . He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He holds an MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and works as a copywriter. Photo by Cody Risinger