Scarecrow Sees by Robert Okaji

Robert Okaji holds a BA in history, served without distinction in the U.S. Navy, toiled as a university administrator, and no longer owns a bookstore. His honors include the 2022 Slipstream Press Annual Chapbook Prize, the 2021 riverSedge Poetry Prize, and, at the age of nine, the Bar-K Ranch Goat-Catching Championship. He was recently diagnosed with late stage metastatic lung cancer, and lives, for the time being, in Indiana with his wife—poet Stephanie L. Harper—stepson, and cat. His first full-length collection, Our Loveliest Bruises, will be published by 3: A Taos Press in fall 2024 (not posthumously, he hopes). His poems may be found in Book of Matches, Threepenny Review, Muleskinner Journal, Only Poems, Vox Populi, Stone Circle Review, Shō Poetry Journal, The Big Windows Review, The Night Heron Barks, Indianapolis Review, and other venues.