C. L. O'Dell was born in the Hudson Valley. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Sun, Ploughshares, the New Statesman, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review,and have been featured on Poetry Daily and RTÉ. He is founder and editor of The Paris-American.
Poems Online
"under each slab of darkness, an infant bit of light was still learning how to turn into nothing"