Author

Stein, Mark

Playwright, screenwriter, and poet. His lyrical work has appeared in Nimrod, Michigan Quarterly Review, Exposition Review, Eclectica, Burningword, and elsewhere. He wrote the screenplay for Housesitter and the New York Times bestseller How the States Got Their Shapes.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

Island Confessions contemporary

Mark Stein

Three poems: Angel, Beaver, and Ni’ihau expose the island as an ideological machine where colonial violence, exclusion, and dispossession are transformed into myth, mystery, and picturesque lore. What looks like geography becomes a technology of power, revealing how history is buried beneath the stories we tell about place.

  • poetry
  • contemporary
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