They are sleeping, mountain-heads, headlands, and the gullies too— the fallen leaves and the tribe of slow-footed creatures the dark earth grows— beasts of prey mountain-bred and brood of wild bees and the brute monsters deep in the deep purple seas: and that flock of omen-giving birds long-winged, they are sleeping too.
was born in Chicago and raised in Colorado and upstate New York. He was educated at Hamilton College, the University of Denver, and the University of Iowa.
Drawing its material from a wide range of sources, Beachy-Quick’s poetry is often united by a focused engagement with the fabric of sound and the pattern of echoes. In a review of Mulberry for Jacket Magazine, poet Tim Kahl noted, “[J]uxtaposing and intermingling a strangely patterned nature with an equally strangely patterned domestic life, Beachy-Quick draws a haunting parallel between the realm of nature and the realm of the human.” Beachy-Quick’s work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a university distinguished teaching scholar.
