Apocalypse John the Revelator transcribes the language of an angel. His prose so elevated, so spidery and crabbed, that no one’s managed to distinguish whether it portends the fall of Rome or future end times, antiquated figures or some ensorcelled crystal ball which any fool could read into. In Bosch’s canvas, the usual menagerie of lepers, wraiths, skullduggery, lechers, bats, and beasts are nowhere to be seen for once—except in the corner lurks one bedeviled critter… An ordinary day, devoid of danger. John dips his pen and turns back to the angel. A ship, like history, burns upon the river. Will Cordeiro Will Cordeiro has work appearing or forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits the small press Eggtooth Editions. He is grateful for a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a scholarship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Truman Capote Writer’s Fellowship, as well as residencies from ART 342, Blue Mountain Center, Ora Lerman Trust, Petrified Forest National Park, and Risley Residential College. He received his MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Will currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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June 2025
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