The Wyeth Ekphrastics

John McCarthy

2026

Winner of the 2025 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest.

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John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which won the Jake Adam York Prize, and This Brutal Vanishing (Texas Review Press, 2028). His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, North American Review, and Quarterly West. He is managing editor of RHINO and teaches creative writing in the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University.