Charles Rafferty
Charles Rafferty is an American poet. In 2009 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, O: Oprah Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares, among other magazines, websites, and anthologies. He co-directs Albertus Magnus College's MFA in Creative Writing program, and teaches at the Westport Writers’ Workshop. As of 2021, he lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
Rafferty had aspired to being a poet since high school. He began writing fiction around his late forties. He views himself as someone who "primarily...writes impressionistic, associative prose poems."
Books
Poetry Collections
The Wave That Will Beach Us Both The Man on the Tower ; winner of the Arkansas Poetry AwardThe Bog Shack A Darkness With Brighter Stars Where the Glories of April Lead A Trayful of Brimming Martinis During the Beauty Shortage A Less Fabulous Infinity The Unleashable Dog DIMINUTION The Smoke of Horses Something An Atheist Might Bring Up At a Cocktail Party Appetites The Problem with Abundance Somebody Who Knows Somebody- ''A Cluster of Noisy Planets''
Short-story collections
Saturday Night at Magellan's- ''Somebody Who Knows Somebody''
Novel
- ''Moscodelphia''