by McKenzie | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Literary Scene, My Poems
—To my fellow Benders, I threw on my grief. MY DUMB HEART is open wide and overflows with water. How I manage to stay alive is beyond me. I like...
by McKenzie | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Literary Scene, My Poems
—Hope is the thing with feathers. Here is a truth: I thrive on hope. But yet, here is another: if you fill a pillow with feathers, I cannot sleep— I wake in the middle of the night, heavy-chested and warm, throwing off the dark as if it were...
by McKenzie | Nov 5, 2016 | Poetry Collections, Reviews
David Dodd Lee has been there with me since the beginning—not since the beginning of my reading and loving poetry, but of my writing poetry and taking that progress seriously. Of taking poetry seriously, and the idea that there was something to be taken...
by McKenzie | Jul 28, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series
AT NORTH FARM Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees...
by McKenzie | Jul 27, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series
—after Philip Larkin TO BRING THE HORSE HOME Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever, an infinitive forged from...
