Dan Howell | The Sun Magazine

Dan Howell

Dan Howell’s collection of poems, Lost Country, will be published next spring by the University of Massachusetts Press.

— From December 1992
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Cowards

Dad brought me forward, a hand gently on my shoulder, face to face with the boy I didn’t want to fight; whatever he said, we understood that we had to. Maybe there was some feeling of a code being invoked, a tradition being followed.

December 1992
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