Bug-out Bag
“We left behind the hatchet / and maps and brought instead bread, wine, cheese, and the strange joy / of no hope.”
Nicholas Montemarano
Nicholas Montemarano is the author of five books, most recently a memoir, If There Are Any Heavens (Persea Books, 2022). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he is the Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres at Franklin & Marshall College.