Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026
Sterling Warner

Sterling Warner

An award-winning author, poet, and Evergreen Valley College English Professor, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared many literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.

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About Sterling Warner

An award-winning author, poet, and Evergreen Valley College English Professor, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared many literary magazines, journals, and anthologies including the Shot Glass Journal, Piker Press, Ekphrastic Review, “Anti-heroin Chic,” and Sparks of Calliope. Warner’s collections of poetry include Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent’s Tooth, Flytraps, Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poetry and Fiction 2019-2022, Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci, and Abraxas: Poems (2024)—as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. Warner currently writes, hosts “virtual” poetry/fiction readings, turns wood, and enjoys fishing and boating along the Hood Canal.

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  • Parked Hound

    An award-winning author, poet, and Evergreen Valley College English Professor, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared many literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.

  • Rubber Bumpers

    "Long poles reach wired grids in ceilings overhead..."

  • Sandy

    "...confident, alert, intelligent, captivating..."

  • Bottoms Up

    "...immortalize people, events, well known weekend secrets..."

  • Brassy Roots Fibonacci

    "...her music maestro insisted her perfect pitch brought life to notes..."

  • Grotesques: A Cadralor

    "...ghost stories uttered a hundred lifetimes..."

  • Dew Drop Reflections

    "...observe nature’s fragile menagerie..."

  • Avocado Adirondack

    "...faces of my youth flash by me..."

  • “Museum Item”

    "Two sets of Hoodies on display..."

  • Itinerant Nebula

    "...hand-hewn obelisks between barren golden oak branches..."

  • I Am

    "...I moved North in a heartbeat to the Fillmore..."

  • Bolide Fireballs

    "...morning songs to fill my senses..."

  • Sea of Milk

    "...awestruck by starshine shimmering ..."

  • Marsh Waders

    "...Annas Bay shoreline where blue herons stand..."

  • Wishing on a Miracle

    "...Initially I placed hope..."

  • Listening to Nakai

    "... falling into Dawn’s cupped hands..."

  • Expressionist Hearts

    "...Tasha and I lay beside the banks of Lake Michigan..."