Benjamin Niespodziany

Summer 2025 | Poetry

It’s Not

after Kyle Marbut

 

 

It's not mine

 

This bag of masks in the back seat

 

This receipt for only oil

 

I've been trying to find myself

 

Looking beneath the floorboards, under the rug, etc.

Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer whose work has appeared in Indiana Review, Fence, Booth, Conduit, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. His writing has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net. The host of a bi-monthly reading series known as Neon Night Mic, he also recently launched his own indie press known as Piżama Press.

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