John Goode is the author of BEAUTY AND THE UNREQUITED LANDSCAPE (2019) and GRADUATING FROM ETERNITY (2013), both from Rain Mountain Press. He is a ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee and his poems have appeared in various literary journals including Rattle, Arsenic Lobster, Slipstream, Bottle of Smoke Press, After Hours, Mudfish, and Skidrow Penthouse. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.