JT Welsch grew up in Waterloo, Illinois, a small farm town across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. After studying music in Boston, he immigrated further east to study screenwriting and poetry at Royal Holloway in London. Earlier this year, he completed a PhD in Manchester, where he currently lives, writes, and teaches at various universities. Orchids is his first book of poetry.
SynopsisThe poems of Orchids spring from the margins of contemporary masculinity. A rich undercurrent of melancholy and desire seethes beneath the cool rhetorical playfulness of these lyrical monologues, as anguished...