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Tyler Robert Sheldon

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Dr. Tyler Robert Sheldon is the author of seven poetry collections including Everything is Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and When to Ask for Rain (Spartan Press, 2021), a Birdy Poetry Prize finalist. He is Editor-in-Chief of MockingHeart Review, and his poetry, fiction, artwork, and criticism have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, The Tulane Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other venues. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient the Charles E. Walton Essay Award, he earned his PhD at LSU and his MFA at McNeese State University.

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Tyler Robert Sheldon I enjoy William Stafford's maxim: "lower your standards and keep writing." I'm paraphrasing, but it really does help: too often my temptation would be…moreI enjoy William Stafford's maxim: "lower your standards and keep writing." I'm paraphrasing, but it really does help: too often my temptation would be to think I was blocked--but really, nothing is so precious that it has to be perfect right out of the gate. First drafts are just that for a reason.(less)
Tyler Robert Sheldon I have a chapbook under review with a press--it's about my time living in Louisiana, and takes a distinctly different tack from other recent writing.…moreI have a chapbook under review with a press--it's about my time living in Louisiana, and takes a distinctly different tack from other recent writing.(less)
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Driving Together: Poems

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Consolation Prize

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Everything is Ghosts

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