Jacques J. Rancourt

Biography

Jacques J. Rancourt’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, and Gulf Coast. A 2012–2014 Stegner Fellow, he was also the recipient of a Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.

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POETRY / Fall 2014

The End Has Not Yet Passed Over Us

By Jacques J. Rancourt

That God first placed an angel
with a flaming sword to guard
Eden’s closed gates, that He gave us
signs to declare a different logic,

POETRY / Fall 2014

History

By Jacques J. Rancourt

In that endless season of dead grass
and rotted pumpkins, I was a boy
who stood in a tree and named all the cows