Amy Beeder

Biography

Amy Beeder is the author of Burn the Field (Carnegie Mellon, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Poetry Daily and The Nation, among other journals. She teaches poetry at the University of New Mexico.

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2010

The Book of Lost Railroad Photographs

By Amy Beeder

Something in a locomotive, that black-clad traffic’s rush,
            something in the silver-tinted background: always
that tally of progress & catastrophe, engines wrecked