Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 13, 2026
Julian O. Long

Julian O. Long

Julian O. Long's poems and essays have appeared under imprints such as "The Sewanee Review," "Pembroke Magazine," "New Texas, New Mexico Magazine," "Horizon," "Green River Press," and "St. Andrews Press," among others.

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About Julian O. Long

Julian O. Long's poems and essays have appeared under imprints such as The Sewanee Review, Pembroke Magazine, New Texas, New Mexico Magazine, Horizon, Green River Press, and St. Andrews Press, among others. His chapbook, High Wire Man, is number twenty-two in the Trilobite Poetry Chapbook series published by the University of North Texas Libraries. A self published collection of his poems, Reading Evening Prayer in an Empty Church, appeared from Backroom Window Press in 2018 and can be found at Amazon. Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.

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    Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.

  • Farm Road Entropy

    "...Harvest and waste of passage...

  • Zapper

    "...wondered if that sound was the last thought..."

  • After implosion

    "...Fifty years is a building's life, said the college pres..."

  • End of the World

    "...What's wrong will never now be right..."

  • Anthropocene

    "He was once my best friend..."

  • Springtime 2019

    "...be time enough and time enough to praise this one more springtime..."

  • Long Homestead in Winter

    "...No one living knows its history now..."

  • The Alpine

    "...Friday nights with whole families dancing..."

  • Silverback

    "...we'll cleverly hide away in swamps..."

  • Chain of Rocks

    "...I'd like to walk it one day..."

  • Aphasia Remembered

    "...panic as though the world has just ended..."

  • Pure Onionhood

    "...finding no heart there..."e that doesn

  • 27 Club

    "...he was quoted saying it had been his only real home...."

  • Greek to Us

    "...maybe because you had no idea who Isadora Duncan was..."

  • Wind in the Willow

    "Big easy has Bourbon Street..."

  • Moonshadow

    "...hopin’ light will stay the night..."

  • Searching for Amédé

    "...singing always his own blues, singing always to one person...."

  • Penguin Provender

    "...Otherwise he’d freeze his toes..."

  • Johann's Boy

    "...case open in front of him already filling with passersby’s pocket change..."

  • Oil Patch, 1980

    "...wind never moves their cattlemen’s hats..."

  • Against Melancholy

    "...sitting on someone’s porch at night eating ice cream..."

  • Animal Counsel

    "...I’m going off with the weather and not come back..."

  • May Day

    "...Down from the house wild iris, lawns rife with bluebonnets..."

  • Earthrise

    "...our yet a while still lovely cerulean planet..."

  • Almost Ghazal for Them Cowbirds

    "I’ve watched wild birds more times than I can count..."

  • Microaggressions

    "...you smile again at your Texan image of old fartdom..."

  • In the Name of Heaven

    "...What are the dreams of music, where do they lead..."

  • Towards an Unaesthetic

    "...palpable and mute as a globed fruit..."

  • More Than Macaronic

    "...Praise with him be to speakers of dead and dying languages..."

  • Epiphany at the St. Louis Art Museum

    "...Their rich robes sparkled with gold..."

  • Memo to Angels in Search of a Lawyer

    "...there are collar pins, tie pins, rolling and bowling pins..."

  • Art Crimes

    "...my crime against the inarticulate..."

  • Anniversary Conversation

    "...poems that hide in the crinkles of your eyes..."