Lew Maltby has been a factory worker, trial lawyer, truck driver, soldier, and corporate executive. He wrote his first poem at 35. Urged by friends, he submitted it to the North Dakota State poetry competition and was amazed when he won.
Lew finds poetry in unlikely places—tracer bullets over his head, the call of hyenas in the African night, the snarl of chainsaws, prostitutes staggering home at 5 AM.
From 2020 to 2023, he was managing editor of U.S. 1 Worksheets.
His poems have appeared In Stillwater Review, River Poet’s Journal, Moonstone Press, and U.S. 1 Worksheets. Kelsay Books published his first chapbook, Smiling Axes, in 2019.
Paperback: 38 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 26, 2024)