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Poetry

$14,000 Watch

Campbell McGrath

Got caught staring 
past the guy three stools down at the bar 
and he says You like it, huh? 

flashing his wrist. 
Fourteen grand
and I nod, not wanting to say 

I was watching shadows flicker
across the wall behind him, 
thinking about human suffering.

Artwork by Felix Quinonez

Born in Paraguay, in 2007 Felix Quinonez moved to NYC to attend Hunter College. There, he studied journalism and art, graduating in 2010. His writing has been published in the Hunts Point Express, My Culture Magazine, USA Today, and various online publications. Currently, he resides in Brooklyn with his amazing cat, Mancha, and badass rat, Rancha. The three of them make comics, battle zombies, watch movies, and listen to records.
Campbell McGrath is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems, and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in scores of literary journals and anthologies, as well as the New Yorker, Atlantic Magazine, Harper's and the New York Times. McGrath's writing has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in American letters, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a United States Artists Fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award." He lives with his wife in Miami Beach, and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.