Fred Dings

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Fred Dings’s books of poetry include Eulogy for a Private Man (TriQuarterly Books), After the Solstice (Orchises Press), and two chapbooks, Vespers and The Bruised Sky. The poems featured here are part of his newly completed third full-length collection, not yet submitted for publication. Dings teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina.

  • The cover to The Four Rings: New and Selected Poems by Fred Dings

    The Four Rings: New and Selected Poems by Fred Dings

    Fred Dings
    Nacogdoches, Texas. Stephen F. Austin University Press. 2020. 112 pages.  ENJOYABLE AND INSIGHTFUL, Fred Dings’s The Four Rings consists of striking images that accompany bot…
  • Gillie Rhodes, “Log pile,” November 7, 2009

    Three Poems for Autumn

    September 13, 2017 Fred Dings
    Gillie Rhodes, “Log pile,” November 7, 2009 Late Autumn  A butterfly searches our garden plants for blossoms  I don’t see. Flitting, almost lurching, it lands    at last on a barren branch as if exha…

  • Three Poems

    July 2012
    Fred Dings
    Illustration by Ciaran Duffy/Flickr   The Blue Whale Our five-year-old daughter bubbles with laughteras she bounces on her bed, pure joy flashingin her eyes like the glint of fingerlings in sunlit wav…