Mark Dow

Mark Dow is the author of Plain Talk Rising: Poems (self-published, 2018) and American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons (University of California Press, 2004). “Caramelo” and “Tinkles” are from his unpublished manuscript Each Thing Starts, which was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Seneca Review Lyric Essay book prize.