Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Let’s call it a learning experience, by which I mean a chance to have learned. Show me how good it will be, down the road a ways, how it all works like nature, and I promise I won’t celebrate if we win, or stand too long on the face of the earth because, boy oh boy, I bet that really hurts. –from “Learning Experience” In GOALS, Paul Stinson confronts the myriad forms of longing and the transcendent power of memory with equal parts humor and reverence. These poems explore themes of class, faith, loss, and acceptance to find the wondrous in the everyday, and hope–even joy–in the face of despair. Paul Stinson’s poems and stories have appeared in AMBIT, The Evergreen Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, he lives in Austin, Texas. More at paulstinson.com.