Bowie dead.  
                     Stared lugubriously 
at a taxidermic storm petrel.  Watched 
Man Who Fell to Earth.  Seemed flatter 
than the United States. 
                                           I'll tumble for you 
crumbles to 
           you belong in the city.  
Who even needs to be dead anymore.  
​​Dylan Willoughby is a permanently disabled LGBTQIA+ poet and composer, born in London, England and currently living in Long Beach, CA. Chester Creek Press has published 3 limited-edition letterpress poetry chapbooks, with illustrations by the hyper-realist painter Anthony Mastromatteo.  His poems have appeared widely in literary magazines including Agenda (UK), Stand (UK), The Interpreter's House (UK), Shenandoah, Salmagundi, Denver Quarterly, CutBank, Southern Humanities Review, and Green Mountains Review.  Recent poems appeared this summer in The Laurel Review, Fahmidan Journal, Goat's Milk Magazine, Sledgehammer Lit, and Bloom Magazine. He has received residency fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, and earned an MFA from Cornell University, where he studied with A. R. Ammons and Robert Morgan. His music, as "Lost in Stars," has been featured by The Los Angeles Times, NPR/PRI program "Echoes," KCRW (LA NPR station), Entertainment Weekly, NYLON magazine, XLR8R, Insomniac, Earmilk, and many other venues.
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