From Fall 2021 Explore This Issue Elegy Riding Shotgun & from “In the Land of Vines (Italy, 2013)” By Matthew Otremba From the Fall 2021 Issue Matthew Otremba lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Houston, and his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review. ← Grand Tour, 1992; [Exiting a performance]; Cimitero Acattolico; & A Sympathy, For Patrick → Claudel and the Sunday Soaps; Brigadista in Retirement; Sleep Ritual; Rebirths; & Mendacity