George Shuster

George W. Shuster, Jr. is a lifelong Rhode Islander and lineal descendant of Anne Bradstreet, the first woman poet of colonial America. He studied poetry at Columbia & the University of Virginia and has been writing for four decades. He is publisher and editor of Prudence Dispatch, a poetry journal.

“museum house,” “graph paper” and “mike”

if the world continues on
long enough, past
you and me and everyone
we know, will every
house be a house
where someone famous once
lived, every home a museum, except maybe ours