X: A Poem

Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and essayist whose most recent book is A MIND FULL OF MUSIC: ESSAYS ON IMAGINATION AND POPULAR SONG. He is also the author of the memoir MY FATHER BEFORE ME as well as three books of poetry: BLACK LEAPT IN, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize; THE ACTUAL MOON, THE ACTUAL STARS, winner of the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award; and FORGIVE US OUR HAPPINESS, winner of the Bakeless Prize. He has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches at Butler University.