Publications & Achievements
The Reveal
You of average size but I was so small, so small they opened my middle like a mouth the incision is clean, straight, but it was in that moment, jagged--- layers of skin cut, the muscles intact and spread open like wire you were inside, waiting; you had been...
Receiving an Honorable Mention for My Chapbook!!
Wonderful news! My chapbook (or chapbook-length poem), Dear Earth / There Are Birds, received an Honorable Mention in this year's Celery City Chapbook Contest. Here is the list of Winners and Honorable Mentions: CJ Giroux, Destination, Michigan, Winner Marci...
Our First Night Home
---after Ralph Angel You wake me in the middle of the night, and you are hungry. You are ravenous. The moon is...
Rhododendron
I am unsure as to where this flower ends or where it began. The small connecting limbs, hidden behind the round series of heads, the seeding centers, their odd tears around the edges like teeth. There is something oddly promising about these flowers---you see,...
False Memory
We’re too damaged to go back now, left a little too far open, lost moons, the open box-cutters with a blade that shines like glass against your hair, your eyes, the feeling of blade to skin. Watching you, this is how a river feels--- too cool, too fast, a...
Anticipating Her Arrival
I have asked my husband, What do you think she will look like? He frowns, and I know there is no answer. Not right now. All I know is beauty: crows bursting from a field, a candle flame, a gust of wind after rainfall. These things are beautiful, imprinted...
Due Date
The act is violent, the tearing open, the skin. I imagine bird claws, the talons, a wind breaking open between two buildings. The mouth, agape. And the arrival. Two shadows. August 20, 2014, MLT
I Am Running Out of Poems.
And then I look to the fall trees, and I wonder if they ever think, “I am running out of leaves.” They probably do, they with their tall, scarred bodies, launching outward and up. Sometimes, they are probably dreaming, or worse, waking. They open their eyes to...
Poem of the Day & Reading Posts
Poem of the Day: David Dodd Lee
A POEM ABOUT BLUEGILLS There are poems about bluegills. There are poems about trout. The bluegill doesn’t give a shit. It’ll eat a bare hook but would rather not hear about your childhood. The bluegill’s thick headed. It hunkers down in the weeds,...
Poem of the Day: Jody Rambo
ELEGY IN WHICH A BIRD APPEARS I will make of my mind a scrape nest for your absence. Clear a swale for silences. Hollow it deep. Let it wild be with sorrow. Let it small psalm home again. And when it becomes difficult to imagine nothing as solid as a...
Poem of the Day: Naoko Fujimoto
MOTHER'S LIPS After the Tsunami in Japan You have no father, my mother said & wiped my neck with a long towel; I smelled...
What They Did Yesterday Afternoon
WHAT THEY DID YESTERDAY AFTERNOON they set my aunts house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i called the boy who use to love me tried to ‘okay’ my voice i said hello he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s...
Poem of the Day: John Rybicki
I AM MAD AND THIS IS HOW I DANCE I wheel my bed into the yard, stand it upright, braced on all sides by ropes. I am too small to house skies, bat-winged angels drunk on tar, dogs scraping their tongues against pavement. My veins finger through cement...
Poem of the Day: Julie Moulds
AFTER READING RUMI I say my prayers upside down, the wind blowing me like a clothespinned robe, my little bat hands curled together. I look for God in a school of fish. I look for God in Mammoth Cave. I look for God in an air balloon. If Jesus’ hot coal...
Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz
HOTEL BERLIN In the rooms of a rundown palace You said, Ruined. You said, Princess. You said nothing to me For three long weeks. The color of that room Is eel-black. When I was a girl and still German, I stood alone At the end of the sea. You may have...
Poem of the Day: Daneen Wardrop
AFTERNOON 3 After the storm, my daughter runs...
Book Reviews & Author Interviews
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Past Literary Events
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.