David Lohrey grew up in Memphis. He was educated at University of California, Berkeley. He has reviewed books for The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register. His plays have appeared recently in Lithuania, Estonia and Croatia, in translation. Poems can be found at Sentinel Literary Quarterly, FRiGG, Otoliths (Australia), and Cecile’s Writers (The Netherlands). In Ireland poems appear in The Stony Thursday Book (Limerick) and Hidden Channel Zine (Mall Sligo). Recent poems have been anthologized by the University of Alabama (Dewpoint), Illinois State University (Obsidian) and Michigan State University (The Offbeat) He is a member of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective in Houston. His recent fiction can be read in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Crack the Spine, and at inshadesmag.com. His book ‘The Other Is Oneself‘, a study of 20th century postcolonial literature, was published this year in Germany. He is currently writing a memoir of his years living in Saudi Arabia. He teaches in Tokyo.
Originally posted on literally stories:
When Literally Stories threw open its virtual doors on 16th November 2014 we had no idea what we were letting ourselves in for. A lot of hard work as it turns out. We published our first story, Post, by Jenny Morton Potts. A year later and somewhere not too far…
Originally posted on DODGING THE RAIN:
First overseas Christmas In fact, there is no Christmas here. No baubles, no tree.No threadbare dilemma. The usually shaking streets,the lush roadsides, twitch like the first morning of a war.Here, they live as close to death as birth, dare you to spotthe difference, celebrating both with noise and colour,…
Originally posted on DODGING THE RAIN:
OTZI AND THE GIANT’S EYE Sometimes, I feel I am curled up in the eye of a giant, light glints makes an iris out of sunbeams that winks from the depths of this ice sea. I forget for a moment, that suffocating pressure keeps me still as bonded molecules…
Originally posted on DODGING THE RAIN:
Street magic I don’t believe in magic. But something hovers along these streets, something like dust not settling hangs just above the slippery cobbles, and it’s more than the messy flash of reflected streetlight and it’s more than the colourful spill from some long gone car, lying now in…
Originally posted on DODGING THE RAIN:
Happy New Year! In tandem with First Fortnight 2021, we have made the first two weeks of our January issue all about mental health and wellbeing. We will publish new poetry on the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 10th, and 14th. We look forward to bringing you new writing for…
Originally posted on (CALIATH):
Rhythms can be hard to get out of one’s mind.
Originally posted on (CALIATH):
Sinfonia Azul (Maria), 1920, António Carneiro It has been an odd year for me and most, and I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have met many wonderful figures here and shared Art that I love with you along with Art that I love making. I’ve never been too fond of writing about…
Private Eyes—David Lohrey—Eclectica Magazine v25n1
WRITINGS, MUSINGS, POETRY 