About


I write at the intersection of narrative, memory, and observation.

My work moves between poetry and fiction, separate practices but different ways of approaching the same questions: How do we understand our lives and the lives that came before us? What remains when memory falters? What stories survive the archive, and what stories must be imagined back into being?

I’m drawn to the places where documentation thins out, where a landscape holds traces of something no longer visible. Much of my writing begins with a fragment—an old photograph, a journal entry, a rumor, a contradiction—and grows outward into narrative or lyric form.

Creative Approach

I work slowly, following threads across genres and forms. A poem might begin as a puzzle; a piece of fiction might grow from a footnote; a project might turn into a meditation. I’m interested in the tension between what can be known and what can only be felt.

My writing often explores:

  • Life in rural America and small towns of the Mid-west.
  • Generational memory and its distortions
  • The emotional residue of ordinary lives
  • The spaces where fact and imagination overlap

I value clarity, precision, and quiet intensity—language that invites the reader to complete the story.

Fiction & Poetry

My fiction tends toward part narrative, part meditation. I’m drawn to characters who live close to the land, close to memory, close to the edge of what they can articulate.

My poetry often works in sequences, exploring mythic, cosmological, or historical themes through grounded, sensory detail. I’m interested in the lyric as a tool for excavation, of history, of self.

Why I Write

Because stories vanish.
Because archives are incomplete.
Because memory is fragile.
Because the past is never as distant as it seems.
Because writing is a way of listening to the living, to the dead, to place.

Contact & Connection

If you’d like to follow my work—new writing, discoveries, and ongoing projects—you can subscribe to this site or reach out through the contact page.

Current Projects

From Cave to Cloud in an ongoing exploration of the interface between the urge to create and technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence and its impact on writing and publishing through Socratic dialogues between myself and various AI models.

In addition to my own writing, I honor the writing of others in my role as Editor in Chief of 3rd Wednesday Magazine, an independent quarterly journal of literary and visual art that publishes both in print and online. Visit us a thirdwednesday.org. Read something. It’s free. Send us something. We’re waiting for you.

—David Jibson