Richard Frailing
Richard Frailing is an MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Originally from the salt marshes of southeast Virginia, he has worked as an ecologist in the Midwest and on the east coast, and he holds an MFA in poetry from Iowa State University. His work has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Roxanne Mueller Essay Award.
Credit photo : Victor Frailing
The Sound That Persists
Traveling across Iowa, where vast cornfields seem to smother the wild, Richard reflects on what silence and loss can reveal. With his hearing altered by a gunshot, he explores how to listen anew to what we’ve nearly forgotten.
