Curtis Bauer

Biography

Curtis Bauer’s latest poetry collection is American Selfie (Barrow Street, 2019). He teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University and is the translations editor for the Common.

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POETRY / Summer 2020

Mime Magnet

By Curtis Bauer

I wonder. Yes, I’m looking up as I say this,
I wonder if I do have a superpower. Maybe
I have more than one aspect of attraction,
this knack for drawing others in close, almost
touching me.