Ben Heins

Ben Heins' poems are collected in two poetry chapbooks – Cut Me Free (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2014) and Greatest Hits & B-Sides (Vagabondage Press, 2012) – and has been featured in over four dozen journals, including Hawai'i-Pacific Review, Penumbra, and San Pedro River Review.

In his professional life, he serves as the Coordinator of Internships and Service Learning for the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.

Visit his webpage (reflecting his recently-married name): Ben Hyland

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► Ben's microchap & selected poems are available below. Download the single-page microchap by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap

The Empathy Thief

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Ben Heins CVR The Empathy Thief Dec 2018

Cover artwork by Lauri Burke

Every microchap

may be downloaded

for free

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(Set printer for landscape)

The Journalist’s Diary, October 9:

Dear Jill:
I ruined your morning today,
perhaps your life. The viper’s crescent
rope descends.
Who to cut, who to cut –

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Summary of First Interview:

Northwestern journalist
   interviews trailer-bound PA hillbilly, Jill,
   stays past sunset. Jill tells life’s story,
   affairs, every family member dead.
   Jill begs
   Please, God,
   don’t write about this.

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