Hear Charles Livesay read three poems: “My Mother’s Son,” “Hawks Won’t Wait,” and “Crappie Season Again.“

Charles Richard Livesay is a teacher from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has been published in Strange Horizons, Oh Reader, Pictura Journal, Rat’s Ass Review, and oddball magazine, among others. He watches birds, reads books, and sometimes forgets to take out his earbuds before he falls asleep. When that happens, Buck Owens haunts his dreams.