The Gold Shop of Ba-'Ali

Yahya Frederickson teaches writing and literature at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Between graduate degrees he taught in Yemen, initially as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in Syria in 2005 and in Saudi Arabia in 2011. His poetry has appeared in Arts & Letters, Black Warrior Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, CutBank, Hanging Loose, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and many other journals.