Frank Heather

Frank Heather is a Jewish poet, originally from the Upper West Side of New York City where he is currently working on publishing his first book Dark Sun and working as an organizer. He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from The University of Chicago and has poetry published in Down in the Dirt Magazine, poetrycircle, Eunoia Review, Independent Voices, Uut Poetry, and elsewhere.

“Dark Sun”, “confessing” and “nag, stone”

An existential fear of unknowing in Heather’s poems is made most explicit in “Dark Sun,” but it is also present in “nag, stone” and “confessing,” irrespective of the irony. Named: “this terror towards time” and “the swirling chaotic mystery of my past.”