Kevin Ridgeway
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Kevin Ridgeway lives and writes in Long Beach, California. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, recent work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Slipstream, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Plainsongs, The Cape Rock, Up the River, KYSO Flash, San Pedro River Review, Lummox, Misfit Magazine, Suisun Valley Review and Cultural Weekly, among others. He is the author of six chapbooks of poetry, including On the Burning Shore (Arroyo Seco Press, 2014) and Contents Under Pressure (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2015). His latest book is A Ludicrous Split (alongside poems by Gabriel Ricard, Alien Buddha Press, 2018).
a beautiful woman among the throngs
removed her dress and began to
march naked, cutting through the
thick crowd on the sidewalk like
a rapier, everyone moving aside