Forrest Rapier has published poetry in Asheville Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Saw Palm, Watershed Review, and many others. He has poetry and prose forthcoming in 2River, Freshwater Review, LIT, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. His debut collection, As the Den Burns, was published by Texas Review Press in 2022. His illustrated chapbook, Zeitgeist Cha Cha, is due to be released from Contagioso Press this fall. Recently, he received the Dean’s Award for Doctoral Excellence at Florida State University and he is a finalist for the 2026 Apogee Poetry Chapbook Award. Currently, he is the Art Editor for Southeast Review. 

Other Works

April and Graveyard, 2River View

Floridamyth of the Millennia of Heck, Watershed Review

Best Udder in Show - Senior Dairy Goats - Blue Ribbon, The Swannanoa Review

Floridamyth of My Friends Who Turned into Animals, Up the Staircase Quarterly

Key West Montage and Key West Montage, Watershed Review

Floridamyth of My Friends Who Turned into Shades, 2River View

How To Make a Boy Out of Fireworks, storySouth

Borrowing the Last Boat, Jet Fuel Review

The River is a Lost Child, Sweet Tree Review

Washing Peaches while Hornets Spat, In Parenthesis

Afterword, Dead Mule

The Book of Ruth, Barely South Review

Millennia of Heck, Peatsmoke Journal

Nightswimming, Lizard King I and II, and CopperheadTrailblazer, Landlocked

Zeitgott and Zeitgeist Cha Cha, Midway Journal

Fillide Melandroni Steals the Ball and Breaks the Wheel, Spectrum

Floridamyth, Spectrum

Floridamyth of the Battle Pony, Freshwater Review

Floridamyth of Mile 0, Saw Palm

Montage of the Anti-Muses, The Meadow

Breaking Down the Door, Midsummer Dream House

Beneath the Mango Tree with Juan, Saw Palm

Against Creation, Rock & Sling

Egret Nexus and Endless Blue, Bayou

Lackawanna Child, Rock & Sling

Little Leviathan, Plainsongs

From Ash, Freshwater Review

Carrier, Freshwater Review

Panther Warning I and II, Rock & Sling

Transformation in Reverse, Red Rock Review

Saint Andrew’s Fish Fry in Mayport, Florida, Levee

Marsh Harbor Drive, In Parentheses

Fatherbeast with Tripwire, In Parentheses

Fatherbeast with Haint Blue, In Parentheses

Firewheel Tribute, Santa Clara Review

Beneath the Lemon Tree, Santa Clara Review

Strays and Float into Dope Moonlight, whereistheriver

Experience Meat, Cold Mountain Review

Atlantic Beach Shallows, Wraparound South

Crisis Aversion, Denver Quarterly Review

Tapestry for the Falconers, Shift

Woozy Zeus, Plath Poetry Project

Neanderthal Tongue, Miracle Monocle

Rowing Out of a Riptide, Appalachian Heritage

Fatherbeast, Asheville Poetry Review

Godchild, Windhover

Fathermyth, Asheville Poetry Review

Burial, Windhover

Radio Pop, Texas Poetry Review

Spitting Image, Best New Poets

Curse, Chattahoochee Review