Scott Dalgarno

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Lifting the blind, my fence zigzags uphill like reverse lightning.

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Scott Dalgarno counts himself fortunate to have seen his poems in APR, The Yale Review, The Antioch Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, and other journals. Three of his translations of the 8th Century Tang poet, Du Fu, are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal. Two of his poems will be in the Fall issue of The Iowa Review. His volume, Third-Class Relics, was a finalist for the 2024 Sally Albiso Prize and has just been published by MoonPath Press. He lives and writes under firs and dogwoods in Lake Oswego, Oregon where he works for issues of justice. Find out more here.

Winner of Write Ten 2025. Read all the winning and shortlisted stories here: Write 10 – The Published Stories 2025