Brendan Sherry

Brendan Sherry is a poet based in Western North Carolina. His most recent work appears in Tyger Quarterly, Always Crashing, and Nat. Brut. He is currently completing his first manuscript, which explores climate displacement, leave-taking, and communal grief.

• Nat. Brut, Winter, 2025. "Cowardice slips / and there were fingerprints," "Some low common / aroma of fresh strawberries," "Disappear / her mother stars."
• Paperbag, Issue 15, Fall, 2024. "For P, Pointing to a Spot Above the Wheels," "For B, Still," "For L, Casting a Cold Eye," "Ochón for L," "For K, Seeing the Storm," "For B, I Lived with the Rabbits in a Paper Mill where the Rains Would Come and Hit."
• Tyger Quarterly, Winter 2024. "Motorcycles / our bygone ballads."
• Always Crashing, Winter 2024. "B Letting Go," "IF you can ride / finding hwys through," "We dont fly / the timing chain," "The long grass / a Barber / Its even lesser guide."
• DIAGRAM, Issue 23.2, Spring 2023. "Note for J," "Overholser."
• Annulet, Issue 4, Fall 2022. "For E, To Depart," "Percy Priest," "11:59."
• Birdfeast, Issue 16, Spring 2022. "The Peace of Bells"
• Poetry Northwest, Winter & Spring 2022 [Print]. "Amdro," "Unless There Is Disgust."
• Afternoon Visitor, Issue 4, Summer 2021. "Daylight," "11-42," "Weltfreude."
• The Tusculum Review, Volume 17, Fall 2021 [Print]. "Paying Poverty."
• Word For/Word, Volume 37, Summer 2021. "The Man You Live with Comes Home Early," "Love Such as Does Not Violate Fear."
• The Spectacle, Issue 10, Spring 2021. "For L, To Depart," "11-41," "In the Pines," "Madison Warren," "Scales."
• Guesthouse, Issue 7, Spring 2021. "Stopping at the Penult," "Dream of Catching a Fish Outside my House," "He Grants a Creator," "Smoking Out," "To Crush the Latter."
• Atticus Review, Summer 2020. "Good Friday."
• A-Minor, Summer 2020. "Études sur les glaciers."
• New South, Spring 2020 [Print]. "St. Joseph."
• Juked, Fall 2018. "Charms and Resolutions #2."
• Dunes Review, Volume 21, Issue 1, Fall 2017. "Pratt and Ashland," "Heart of Alene."