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# McKenzie Lynn Tozan

Poet on the Path to Peaceful Publishing

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- [New Poem: A Sound Sharp Enough to Count—](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-a-sound-sharp-enough-to-count/) - "A Sound Sharp Enough to Count—" a new poem by McKenzie Lynn Tozan: Don't explain yourself, she says—Let the rain fall where it falls. If you must...
- [The horses...](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-horses/)
- [Babysitting--And Then, The Crisis](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/babysitting/) - We are sitting in a worn-out cafe, with fruit that is a little too far gone, and she decides to explain it to me like this: the neighbors' boy was there while the parents were away, the summer heat beating down, all the birds like feathered shade along the electric wires. She poured the
- [Dinosaur Bone](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dinosaur-bone/) - You brought it home, yellow with age and old ligament, and propped it up in the entryway of our home, next to the umbrellas. This led to the making of soup and a long discussion about death. I asked, Can we just pretend for a moment that all we have to do to survive
- [Childbirth](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/childbirth/) - Here is how it ends---the whale departs from its shell and there is a curve of body and blood, a trail of the mother’s womb. Counterpoise: the redistribution of weight and water---for a moment, you can see the sea rise---and then, the equilibrium. Cell-like, and I see the earth growing smaller.
- [Screenwriter](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/screenwriter/) - . . . Stared at myself in the mirror. My eyes were dark pits and my gums had turned a pulpy red. I seemed to be looking at the portrait of a man who hadn’t eaten a piece of fruit in years---he’s skeletal but somehow large. Reaches for me as I go to
- [Puzzle Skin](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/puzzle-skin-2/) - In the middle of summer, he removed his shirt and stood next to the open hood, engine steaming, when I first observed the Frankenstein’s monster tattoo covering his right bicep, broken down into puzzle pieces, part of the lip and neck and forehead missing. I imagined how it might look, the lower jaw and
- [Concealer](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/concealer/) - In the early part of the day, I eat flowers in the attempt to be more beautiful. All the curtains remain closed, the lights off, mirrors concealed. I imagine I am thin like a swan, the smooth, sharp feathers, the eyes that strike through skin. With enough time, my skin will become translucent, thin,
- [Dreamscape](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dreamscape/) - As a child, she was terrified of birds. After watching The Birds, she went outside with her shoulders hunched and eyes looking down. One night, in her dreams, she thought the piranha and the pterodactyl were also birds. When she awoke, they were—and all the teeth and feathers, scales and skin, were hers, settled
- [Dolores](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dolores/) - Dolores is in the moment. Dolores is a woman left out-of-doors, while all the neighbors close their curtains. To them, Dolores is a plague creeping down their streets, palms pressed on one door after the next. Dolores is a piece of shit, they say. Everything Dolores touches turns stupid. But Dolores is much more
- [Jericho Brown: A Poem](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/jericho-brown-a-poem/) - Like hail from a blind sky, the body falls. He drinks wine from broken shot glasses and wears a goatee. This is his appearance to some. For others, he continues on his way in bare feet and white robes. In either world, he takes his time. Whether or not his words contain the rush
- [OCD (You Stop By To Tell Me How Cruel Life Is)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/ocd-you-stop-by-to-tell-me-how-cruel-life-is/) - And then I tell you you make me feel better. I eat the fruit and the bread---the body, you say---and I go so far as to eat the core and the vine the vine the vine the vine even after you’ve told me to stop. It’s cold in here, I say, and you
- [Afterlife](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/afterlife/) - “I’m not committed to life,” she said and her body was ash beneath the moon. She ate a pomegranate down to its last seed, took a breath and confessed. Pumpkin seeds tasted like water now. She often dreamed of swallowing an entire swing so that she might take that swaying motion with her. But
- [Gray Wolf](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/gray-wolf/) - The myth begins with gray fur and yellow-moon eyes. The teeth. First, there are whispered sightings, dismissed into the neighboring water. * Next, the discovery of cattle bones, picked clean, the bodies having disappeared days before. The farmers are not pleased. What they are doing is unacceptable, they say, unclean. * Then, the massacre:
- [Morning Song](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/morning-song/) - Lackadaisical cries, and the morning is open. Outside, the world is still dark, but in here---through the neighbor’s walls---I hear the earth turning. She is small, perhaps three, and I can imagine her in the small purple pajamas I saw when the family first moved in. Her hair, a spring-tide of brown curls, bounces
- [Chastised](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/chastised/) - The questions come like glass and ice. She removes her hair and a piece of her skull---this is all that could ever protect me---and the brain beneath is pulsing and pink and white. Later, in his dreams, he tells the other bodies that there was yellow, too: the series of electrons, leaping: hoping for
- [She Wanted To Be An Airplane](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/she-wanted-to-be-an-airplane/) - Whether it was old wood or metal, it did not matter: it was the flight that was important, the escape and redemption of a sky over the house where she’d grown up, the shed where she sometimes hid in the middle of the night, watching for raccoons. She found a baby one, once, dead
- [Tenacity](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tenacity/) - It’s this simple: the first relationship is nothing but a series of elephant bones--- the dust and chalk that stumbles through the mouth. The body is fragile, indiscriminate, pining for what is lost in a field, or has never been given. You spend your time shedding the skin, the old bone, in place of
- [Tornado](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tornado/) - Before you know it, the earth takes on an extra layer of skin. The wind is whipping, whistling, and when you look outside, you realize this is how everything communicates: We speak. We destroy. And then it’s over. The world may have a few more years---and then all the buildings and swing sets and
- [Umbrella: Customer Care](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/umbrella-customer-care/) - Humans are a series of feathers left inside-out. You are out in the rain, pacing from one eve to another, looking up at the splintered gutters, left cracked from last year’s Michigan winter. At the door, you take the world inside---one footprint from the dirt path, a stone from the park. Then, the disconnect:
- [Ultrasound](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/ultrasound/) - The body is pregnant with limbs and dismemberment---they tremble and clutch. Their mouths are open and closed again, the green bodies like ghosts turning over, a foot thrusting outward, another hand reaching gripping emptiness. It reaches for you and gathers nothing, is not angry---tries again. This is how you know these are the earliest
- [Pomegranate](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/pomegranate/) - This is how it happens---he lifts the dress above your head and brings it down around your hands. You become a peacock, all feathers, all lace. You breathe deep, shrinking your frame as he fastens the eye-hook, zips up the dress. Then, the shoes---crows' feet--- and you are ready. As you are presented, you
- [Rhododendron](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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, they have appeared in my poems before. As children, as
- [Sometimes: A Secret](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/sometimes-a-secret/) - There is a faun that passes through my backyard, only sometimes, and the bald tip of her tail and her limp are unmistakable. If she comes in the late afternoon, I lean my body against our porch door, and she freezes for me. The sun highlights her, an ear twitches. I can't help but
- [The Promise](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-promise/) - Let me make this perfectly clear: the iron is leaving my body. The calcium, the heat. The organs like cold compresses. Her own, smaller body inside my own is jarring, moving against bone and blood. It pains, and yet it tells me she is still breathing. The flowers are blooming again. A night owl
- [Horticulture](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/horticulture/) - Let's say I take a bite directly from this tree---straight from the bark. What would you do? I understand. You are worried. You, all moon, all pure, imagine the splinters between my teeth, permanent there like small skulls. It becomes pointless to argue with you. All theories of health and connectedness are lost in
- [I'll Be Honest,](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/ill-be-honest/) - Weeds are meant to be pulled. Their wide, twine roots, boxing everything else in. It all takes so little time, the swarm, they take over. I struggle with the beautiful ones, negotiate their responsibility, and end up pulling them up anyway. Guts and roots. A brutal cycle. Like us in a snow storm, all
- [New Poem "In Nature" & The Prompt Behind It](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-in-nature-the-prompt-behind-it/) - Happy Writing Prompt Wednesday! Here is my poem and the prompt I used to write it, plus a little love for Ecopoetics. Enjoy!
- [Caterpillar Towns](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/caterpillar-towns/) - Look at the way the body separates; the individual, round skulls---the rotation, the turn, the hum. The brains lift down into the feet, small propellers. As if you and I were connected, somehow. August 7, 2014, MLT
- [In Plain Sight](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/in-plain-sight/) - Left out on the farm, there is the threat to turn cold. The discovery of the skeleton of an opossum on the line between the yard and the field, blending into the rocks. Like a small jesus---and the wise men are touching walking sticks to forehead. I think of picking it up, taking it
- [Dragonflies: A Snapshot](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dragonflies-a-snapshot/) - In the rain, they are too small. The wings, the small holes, the designs, are filled with water. Their bodies glisten. I collected a jar of them and kept them in the garage for winter, one side frosted with window air. Their bodies quickly froze to the sides, a strange kaleidoscope of purple and
- [Sunflowers,](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/sunflowers/) - and concern. There is a vase of the yellow masses in the window. They remain motionless despite the sound of the air cracking, the belt. Thirteen, fourteen. His body, in this space, is pointless. August 10, 2014, MLT
- [A Tribute](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-tribute/) - Tears burn yellow, burn wide, in the sun. The small sunflower seeds left over along your collar and in your hair. They are senseless, aimless, unceasing. This is the definition of mourning. It is a marionette, a song, unweaving. August 11, 2014, MLT
- [A Demonstration](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-demonstration/) - There was no other way to tell you that life was harmful: threw the box into the river, filled with rocks, with you, with light. There is nothing left but stars. August 12, 2014, MLT
- [A Lone Bluebird after a Storm](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-lone-bluebird-after-a-storm/) - A promise of something small---and the skin warms. August 13, 2014, MLT
- [Memories](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/memories/) - You should know by now that we can’t go back. Not like this. Not back through the electric fence or past the sheep, dehydrated and teeming. Past the mailboxes and songs. Our bodies are like their bodies now, stormed over and pale with all this sunlight and dung. We never should have come out
- [Collecting Horses](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/collecting-horses/) - I want to get back into drawing, the pencil in my hand, the thick charcoal under my nails. I keep collecting spare pieces of paper, of cardboard, in the hope that something might happen. A horse, gray and white shadows, it appears---the long mane draped over one shoulder like a flag, the exposed eye
- [Untitled; An Accordion](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/untitled-an-accordion/) - Yesterday, I spent the day sleeping away my life. It was peaceful, the blankets all clustered near the back porch door, and all the doors and windows on the first floor were left wide open. The sounds of wind and wind chimes, birds calling, the scent of trees, came and went. All that was
- [Garden Stems](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/garden-stems/) - I go out into the world, looking for strawberries like the ones from my mother’s garden. They were small and firm, sweet but bitter, dirt caught in the leaves and deeper pits. We plucked them fresh from their stems and ate them before cleaning them, the dirt and seeds caught in-between our teeth. Now
- [Searching Tide Pools for Shore Crabs](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/searching-tide-pools-for-shore-crabs/) - Crab is such an ugly word---the hard k, its suddenness. I’m steeped in these small pools, or perched on the surrounding rocks and sand, one hole after the next, searching for shore crabs, carcinus maenas. I find their gray and tan bodies, slick with the tide, their sideways catapult from rock slide to water.
- [I Am Running Out of Poems.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 colored leaves, the green having fallen out,
- [Due Date](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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
- [Anticipating Her Arrival](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 somewhere in her face, her
- ["A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming" & The Prompt Behind It](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-sleeping-octopus-changes-color-while-dreaming-the-prompt-behind-it/) - Happy Writing Prompt Wednesday! Here is my latest poem, "A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming," and the writing prompt behind it. Give it a try, and send it to me for a read!
- [August 2022: Seafoam Green Poems, Travel Writing, & Chosen Families](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/august-2022-seafoam-green-poems-travel-writing-chosen-families/) - Happy Monday! Here's more about my two series on Medium about being a digital nomad and chosen families, as well as a sea-themed poetry series, and more info about WHAT WE FIND IN THE DARK. Enjoy!
- ["The Hunt for Red [Starbucks]" & A Friday Round-Up](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-hunt-for-red-starbucks-a-friday-round-up/) - Join me in my search of all things Halloween and Pennywise at Starbucks! Plus, here's my weekly round-up of publications ICYMI and would like to get caught up!
- [A Very Long Week, Poetry Games, & A Friday Night Round-Up!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-very-long-week-poetry-games-a-friday-night-round-up/) - Happy Friday, friends! Here's a little about my week, a Poetry Game challenge, and a round-up of my publications from the week! Enjoy!
- [A Birthday Saddle & A Friday Round-Up!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-birthday-saddle-a-friday-round-up/) - TGIF, friends! This week was my daughter's fifth birthday, and I also did a little writing! I hope your week was wonderful!
- [Birthday Weekend Round-Up!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/birthday-weekend-round-up/) - Happy Friday, friends! Here are TWO weeks' worth of content; I hope you enjoy these! In the meantime, tell me about your favorite things this fall, and how you're preparing for NaNoWriMo!
- [It's the "Almost Halloween" Friday Round-Up!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/its-the-almost-halloween-friday-round-up/) - TGIF, friends! I hope you had a wonderful week! This week, I had the pleasure of writing in entertainment and reflecting on my poetry, in addition to my usual trending pieces. Enjoy!
- [On the Hunt for Halloween & A Short Story Release: October 1st's Feature Friday](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hunt-for-halloween-short-story-oct-1-feature-friday/) - Happy Saturday, friends! Here's my weekly newsletter, featuring my publications and fun from the week---of course including "The Duplex." Enjoy!
- [The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who Says Happy Birthday: Poetry & Book Publication: July 1 Friday Round-Up](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-yara-ma-yha-who-says-happy-birthday-poetry-book-publication-july-1-friday-round-up/) - Happy Friday and Happy July! Here's my favorite moment from the week, and what's to come in July.
- [An Inspirational Poem & Spooks in July: July 8th's Feature Friday](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/an-inspirational-poem-spooks-in-july-july-8ths-feature-friday/) - Happy Friday, all! Here is my Feature Friday for July 8th, complete with book news from the week, inspiration for new writing, and updates on WHAT WE FIND IN THE DARK.
- [Poem of the Day: Meg Day](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-meg-day/) - Happy National Poetry Month! Here's the Poem of the Day, for the first of the month: Meg Day's "Hymn to a Landlocked God." Enjoy!
- [A Poem of the Day: Jennifer Jackson Berry](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-jennifer-jackson-berry-2/) - Happy Monday, friends! In an effort to share a little beauty during these difficult times, I'm bringing back my Poem of the Day series. Today: Jennifer Jackson Berry's "I Lost Our Baby." Enjoy.
- [Poem of the Day & Remembering Ralph Angel](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-remembering-ralph-angel/) - Happy Tuesday. In memory of Ralph Angel tonight, here are several of his poems from his collection, YOUR MOON, from New Issues Poetry and Prose. Enjoy.
- [Poem of the Day: Rebecca Pelky](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-rebecca-pelky/) - Happy Wednesday, friends! Here's today's Poem of the Day: "Radium Girl" by Rebecca Pelky. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Vievee Francis](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-vievee-francis/) - Happy Thursday, friends! Here is today's Poem of the Day: "Another Antipastoral" by Vievee Francis. Enjoy!
- [Poems of the Day: Allan Peterson](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poems-of-the-day-allan-peterson/) - Happy Friday, friends! To carry us into the weekend, here are several short poems by Allan Peterson, from his latest collection, THIS LUMINOUS. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Sylvia Plath](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-sylvia-plath-2/) - Happy Monday, friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. To start our week, here is a poem by Sylvia Plath, "Blackberrying," which seems particularly fitting right now. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Sylvia Plath](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-sylvia-plath-3/) - Happy Friday, everyone! For our Poem of the Day, here is another poem by Sylvia Plath, "Winter Landscape, with Rooks." Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Brigit Pegeen Kelly](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-brigit-pegeen-kelly/) - Happy Tuesday, friends! After a bit of a break, here's the new Poem of the Day: Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Doing Laundry on Sunday." Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Frank Stanford](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/frank-stanford-light-dead-see/) - Happy Tuesday, friends! Here is today's Poem of the Day: "The Light the Dead See" by Frank Stanford. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Justin Phillip Reed](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-justin-phillip-reed/) - Happy Tuesday, friends! Coming to you late, but here is today's Poem of the Day: "What's Left Behind After a Hawk Has Seized a Smaller Bird Midair" by Justin Phillip Reed. Enjoy!
- [Let's Finish February Strong: Poem by Toni Morrison](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/eve-remembering-poem-toni-morrison/) - Happy Saturday! Let's finish the month strong with some poems by some fantastic Black poets. Today's poem is "Eve Remembering" by Toni Morrison.
- [Poem of the Day: Nikki Giovanni](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-skydiving-nikki-giovanni/) - Happy Sunday! Today's Poem of the Day is "Sky Diving" by Nikki Giovanni. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Olena Kalytiak Davis](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-olena-kalytiak-davis/) - Happy Tuesday, friends! Today's Poem of the Day is a pair of poems by the incredible Olena Kalytiak Davis. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: 5 Poems to Settle into the New Year](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-5-poems-to-settle-into-the-new-year/) - Happy Tuesday, friends! I don't know about you, perhaps especially with being sick, it's been harder to shake off that looming feeling of the holidays this year. But at the same time, I'm feeling all that excitement of the new year and what it promises: page one of a book, a new chapter, a blank
- [Poem of the Day: Susan Prospere](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-susan-prospere/) - Happy Monday! Enjoy this Poem of the Day: "Silver Thaw" by Susan Prospere
- [Poem of the Day: Norman Dubie](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-norman-dubie/) - TROMBONE There were carols on the kitchen radio, a late cold night, entering the room while straightening the blistered Navajo rug, I remembered suddenly what the first eight notes of hark, the herald angels sing felt like vibrating through my body that first time--- I was eleven and unprepared, I remembered when I
- [Poem of the Day: Larissa Szporluk](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-larissa-szporluk/) - LADYBIRDS Brilliance is a carcass on a snow-white beach. Envy never sleeps. I tell my children truthfully: a long red beard is breaking from the darkness scale. He’s chasing you because you’re new. Because he’s old and sees the town in dirty tones: violet sheep and wine-dark corn. He burns the evening rainbow
- [Poem of the Day: Robert Hass](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-robert-hass/) - THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING Many are making love. Up above, the angels in the unshaken ether and crystal of human longing are braiding one another's hair, which is strawberry blond and the texture of cold rivers. They glance down from time to time at the awkward ecstasy--- it must look to them like
- [Poem of the Day: Chad Forbregd](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-chad-forbregd/) - CAPGUN Imagine a boy holding a capgun. Now, instead of a boy, imagine a man holding a portrait of a boy with a capgun. There's an orange tip painted on the end of his assault rifle. It's okay, it just looks fake, it's actually quite real. Later the boy will grow up, get
- [Poem of the Day: Ross Gay](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-ross-gay/) - BURIAL You're right, you're right, the fertilizer's good--- it wasn't a gang of dullards came up with chucking a fish in the planting hole or some midwife got lucky with the placenta--- oh, I'll plant a tree here!--- and a sudden flush of quince and jam enough for months---yes, the magic dust our
- [Poem of the Day: Allan Peterson](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-allan-peterson/) - THE INEVITABLE To have that letter arrive was like the mist that took a meadow and revealed hundreds of small webs once invisible The inevitable often stands by plainly but unnoticed till it hands you a letter that says death and you notice the weed field had been readying its many damp handkerchiefs
- [Poem of the Day: Claudia Rankine](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-claudia-rankine/) - / You are in the dark, in the car, watching the black-tarred street being swallowed by speed; he tells you his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there. You think maybe this is an experiment and you are being tested or retroactively insulted
- [Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-cynthia-cruz-2/) - SELF-PORTRAIT I did not want my body Spackled in the world’s Black beads and broke Diamonds. What the world Wanted, I did not. Of the things It wanted. The body of Sunday Morning, the warm wine and The blood. The dripping fox Furs dragged through the black New York snow—the parked car, the
- [Poem of the Day: Christine Garren](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/2371-2/) - THE WOVEN MESSAGE come hide near me I’ll count however long I need to count the insects in the web--- I like the still living ones—that beat of wing I hear or the still turned-on ignition of the firefly---I see one’s underbelly blink on and off---come hide near me, somewhere in this wild
- [Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/mary-olivers-wild-geese/) - WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile
- [Poem of the Day: Elizabeth Bradfield](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-elizabeth-bradfield/) - PURSUIT ---for Arctic Explorer Donald B. MacMillan Provincetown, September All summer, town kids pose at the edge of the pier named after you and leap. I’ve just flown home from Baffin, Mac. A month of spotting polar bears, lecturing on tundra as raw wind shrugged us off, then winter chased us down the
- [Poem of the Day: Franz Wright](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-franz-wright/) - ---in the wake of another tragedy: praying for France THOUGHTS OF A SOLITARY FARMHOUSE And not to feel bad about dying. Not to take it so personally--- it is only the force we exert all our lives to exclude death from our thoughts that confronts us, when it does arrive, as the
- [Poem of the Day: Danez Smith](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-danez-smith/) - not an elegy for Mike Brown I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black dead thing. bring him & we will mourn until we forget what we are mourning & isn’t that what being black is about? not the joy of
- [Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-julie-bruck/) - ---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 a night when giant ladybugs with toothpick antennae patrolled my wicker nightstand. Yes, I’ve been with horses since, travelled illegally with them in trailers, known certain
- [Poem of the Day: John Ashbery](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-john-ashbery/) - 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 you, Give you the thing he has for you? Hardly anything grows here,
- [(I'm Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/im-back-poem-of-the-day-jack-gilbert/) - Hi everyone! I know it's been a while again. But here I am: quiet little me, doing quiet not-so-little things. I'm in the process of starting a small feature series called The Curve with Write around the Bend, in preparation for their literary magazine launch next fall / winter, as well as an independent
- [Poem of the Day: Kim Dower](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-kim-dower/) - HE SAID I WROTE ABOUT DEATH and I didn’t mean to, this was not my intent. I meant to say how I loved the birds, how watching them lift off the branches, hearing their song helps me get through the gray morning. When I wrote about how they crash into the small dark
- [Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-kim-addonizio/) - DARKENING, THEN BRIGHTENING The sky keeps lying to the farmhouse, lining up its heavy clouds above the blue table umbrella, then launching them over the river. And the day feels hopeless until it notices a few trees dropping delicately their white petals on the grass beside the birdhouse perched on its wooden post,
- [Poem of the Day: Ada Limón](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-ada-limon/) - Help me turn my mind off. Help me be more than a song. The stress like a crow's open flame. Help me to not give up on forgiveness. The work has become too wild here. Help me. Help me--- (Days like today, poetry reminds me to live.) INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP
- [Poem of the Day: Daneen Wardrop](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-daneen-wardrop/) - AFTERNOON 3 After the storm, my daughter runs from deck to wading pool and back, many times, investigates a dragonfly, runs an agreement with gravity--- to keep it happy that it can have a say--- At what rip in the gravity do we enter? There are no places yet where her body resists
- [Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 loved me
- [Poem of the Day: Julie Moulds](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 head is
- [Poem of the Day: John Rybicki](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 until they find grass, Irish
- [Poem of the Day: Naoko Fujimoto](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 the lavender soap: bubbles on her cheeks: the outline of her lipstick: dark purple around her lips; they were unlike mine; I wanted hers; I hated the garden scent;
- [Poem of the Day: Jody Rambo](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 mother's arms, I
- [Poem of the Day: David Dodd Lee](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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, thinking. The trout’s like a young girl in a wedding
- [Poem of the Day: Erica Bernheim](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-erica-bernheim/) - VIRGIL MOON I'm willing to bet that greasy twenty stuck to the bottom of your empty file cabinet, it's never me you think of when you try to shoot yourself onto the ceilings of your apartment. Your thoughts lie somewhere in the sink you call your Amazon Basin, soapy home to blue Julies
- [Poem of the Day: Elizabeth Bishop](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-elizabeth-bishop/) - THE BIGHT At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and glare and the boats are dry, the pilings dry as matches. Absorbing, rather than being absorbed, the water in the bight doesn't wet anything, the color of the gas flame turned as low as
- [Poem of the Day: Jean Valentine](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-jean-valentine/) - YOU DREW MY HEAD You drew my head the back of my head my neck stem you made my head a charcoal skull and even the skull is turned away no eyes ---from Jean Valentine's Door in the Mountain: New and Collection Poems, 1965 - 2003, Wesleyan University Press (2004)
- [Poem of the Day: Mary Ruefle](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-mary-ruefle/) - SAGA Everything that ever happened to me is just hanging---crushed and sparkling---in the air, waiting to happen to you. Everything that ever happened to me happened to somebody else first. I would give you an example but they are all invisible. Or off gallivanting around the globe. Not here when I need them
- [Poem of the Day: Nancy Botkin](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-nancy-botkin/) - SKATES In childhood you unfold the map of the world and smooth it out with your small hand, and with one finger trace a path somewhere not very far, usually a block or two from home where the pond is frozen over, where the trees sag a little from the weight of ice,
- [Poem of the Day: Carrie Oeding](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-carrie-oeding/) - APOLOGY TO MEDITATION The meditation teacher said he wants to leave you alone with me. There should be no third party between me and "existence." The meditation teacher said I would soon understand the nature of the mind rather than fight with it. He winked at me then, a bit creepy. I'll be
- [Poem of the Day: Jericho Brown](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-jericho-brown/) - TO BE SEEN Forgive me for taking the tone of a preacher. You understand, a dying man Must have a point---not that I am Dying exactly. My doctor tells me I'll live Longer than most since I see him More than most. Of course, he cannot be trusted Not can any man Who
- [Poem of the Day: Larry Levis](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-larry-levis/) - THE SPIRIT SAYS, YOU ARE NOTHING: Because you haven’t praised anything in months, You walk down to the river and study one ripple Above a dead tree Until it is almost dark enough For the moon to whiten it, But it does not, And so you put your hand out, Palm open, And
- [Poem of the Day: C.D. Wright](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-c-d-wright/) - PROVINCES Where the old trees reign with their forward dark light stares through a hole in the body’s long house. The bed rolls away from the body, and the body is forced to find a chair. At some hour the body sequesters itself in a shuttered room with no clock. When a clean
- [Poem of the Day: Jamaal May](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-jamaal-may/) - CHIONOPHOBIA ---Fear of Snow Fluttering ash dissolves on your brother's tongue. He thinks of you building a fort from snow before you knew what forts were and he could stand in your footprints without touching the sides. Can two snowflakes be the same on a ghost-white street where enough gather to construct faceless
- [Poem of the Day: Sylvia Plath](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-sylvia-plath/) - JUVENILIA Arranged in sheets of ice, the fond skeleton still craves to have fever from the world behind. Hands reach back to relics of nippled moons, extinct and cold, frozen in designs of love. At twelve, each skull is aureoled with recollection's ticking thorns winding up the raveled mold. Needles nag like unicorns,
- [Poem of the Day: Frank Stanford](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-frank-stanford/) - THE LIGHT THE DEAD SEE There are many people who come back After the doctor has smoothed the sheet Around their body And left the room to make his call. They die but they live. They are called the dead who lived through their deaths, And among my people They are considered wise
- [Poem of the Day: Bill Rasmovicz](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-bill-rasmovicz/) - THE MOON'S HIND LEGS The moon's hind legs are invisible. Its bastard ear-boring cry is only fully heard by infants. Bright as the starchy pharmacist's coat, its objective is to illuminate the puddled glass replacing someone's stolen vehicle, the tuft of fur in the barbed wire. Some nights it shivers as though it
- [Poem of the Day: William Stafford](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-william-stafford/) - THE LITTLE GIRL BY THE FENCE AT SCHOOL Grass that was moving found all shades of brown, moved them along, flowed autumn away galloping southward where summer had gone. And that was the morning someone's heart stopped and all became still. A girl said, "Forever?" And the grass. "Yes. Forever." While the sky
- [Poem of the Day: Beckian Fritz Goldberg](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-beckian-fritz-goldberg/) - CROCUS I wanted to stay in the earth: There, I needed no skin---the dark body was all around me. I had no tongue. Above me, sleep, a heaven of snow. Years, years. Then the split, the blue heart lifted almost out---who was coming to save me? How would I know myself, outside self...
- [Poem of the Day: Diane Seuss](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-diane-seuss/) - IT BLOWS YOU HOLLOW It takes your bones to bed, tongues out the marrow. Says it will meet you halfway, a hotel deep in Oklahoma where you'll get adjoining rooms and have a couple of nervous breakdowns. It's a no-show, waylaid. It orders the venison sausage, the lamb, the infant in puff pastry,
- [Poem of the Day: William Aberg](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-william-aberg/) - VESPERTINE I can still see it, evenings: the sky an orange liquor over the coming dark, a woman brushing the twigs from her hair, dwarf trees sparkling with a lavender mist. But it's something else, a step into the old, wonderful story in which the stars have yet to appear. In this, her
- [Poem of the Day: Robert Creeley](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-robert-creeley/) - EDGES Edges of the field, the blue flowers, the reddish wash of the grasses, the cut green path up to the garden plot overgrown with seedlings and weeds--- green first of all, but light, the cut of the sunlight edges each shift of the vivid particulars, grown large ---even the stones large in
- [Poem of the Day: Franklin K. R. Cline](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-franklin-k-r-cline/) - WHATEVER IT IS A DEAD THING MIGHT DO My iPhone insists I don't mean "sestina" but instead "destroy," and I think okay, now that's something I can easily do: destroy, that is, especially here in November in which a certain reliable despair whirls around the lawns, these green-to-brown leaves, and I could sit
- [Poem of the Day: Charmi Keranen](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-charmi-keranen/) - LATE CRETACEOUS 1. Say the hummingbird's a home wrecker Spider-cropped or furious How else to account for The missing orbs The white fields of porches Heather filling the salvage yard 2. My landlord is dying The man in love with the idea of being loved Is building an igloo Sewing morning glory
- [Poem of the Day: Cole Swensen](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-cole-swensen/) - If the horse was white and the green hill opened out an animal the lamp of any landscape where the angle of incident light is an index and on the grey ridge on the other side any animal so largely domestic a large white dog, for instance coming out of the sea alone
- [Poem of the Day: Emily Dickinson](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-emily-dickinson/) - #670 ("One need not be a Chamber---to be Haunted---") One need not be a Chamber---to be Haunted--- One need not be a House--- The Brain has Corridors---surpassing Material Place--- Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting External Ghost Than its interior Confronting--- That Cooler Host. Far safer, through an Abbey gallop, The Stones a'chase---
- [Poem of the Day: Edgar Allan Poe](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-edgar-allan-poe/) - THE RAVEN Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,”
- [Poem of the Day: Iliana Rocha](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-iliana-rocha/) - LA ESTRELLA When Polaris falls, my grandmother will mourn in the center of the earth, her grief a giant telescope expanding through mantle, lithosphere, crust--- a grito. In her hand, a mirror of polished obsidian--- lava’s reaction to water. In her hand, reflections: a plumed serpent, a jaw, a rosary, a spirit of
- [Poem of the Day: Louise Mathias](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-louise-mathias/) - PRONE, NOVEMBER Just your slow, pink movements near the doorway. If there were fields, they'd long ago rolled back in agate bliss. Until you were indelible, a dahlia. Bale of hay, almost made for a woman bent over. Her pale sweet hedging (which, in certain landscapes, is an early form of love. )
- [Poem of the Day: Clayton T. Michaels](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-clayton-t-michaels/) - PRECIOUS Bring me sackcloth and oleander. Break out the shotguns. We’re going to town. Changes in the weather tracked on smoke-streaked yellowed windows via crosshatches thumbnail- scratched into their
- [Poem of the Day: Lisa Nanette Allender](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-lisa-allender/) - L.V. WOMEN The Women wear their hair like a blonde ballet trained to perform each golden strand sun-bleached and chemical-precision, in perfect position. The women wear their skin unnaturally tight dry and porous like the concrete surrounds, pneumatic-pillow breasts under their gowns. The women wear their men on their arms never hand-in-hand, old
- [Poem of the Day: Michalle Gould](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-michalle-gould/) - WHEN I WAS NAKED I was the sturdy bowl of plums half-buried in snow outside the artist’s studio. He paints the shades of purple reflected in condensed water on my skin. I was the snowy hill topped by a nun’s black habit, a fall of dark hair descending to wintry shoulders, an infinite
- [Analecta Publication](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/analecta-publication/) - Saturday evening, in conjunction with Jim Daniels' reading, was the IU South Bend student writing awards and the first reveal of the 2012 Analecta. Since I was unable to attend, I just picked up my copy, and I've spent the past hour or so flipping through it, reading it, admiring it. This very well might
- [Remembering Herbert Scott](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/remembering-herbert-scott/) - SLEEPING WOMAN ---after the painting by Richard Diebenkorn I’m walking east down Lovell in Kalamazoo in the middle of the afternoon, and it’s hot, July something, and there’s a man sleeping on the sidewalk--- the way you would in your bed---his body a
- [A Quiet Return: Spending Time in the Horror Genre](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/horror-genre/) - Hi friends! It’s been a really long time since I posted or shared work with you, and it bothers me. I’ve still been reading and writing from my quiet little corner, but I’ve minimally shared, and that isn’t who I am as a writer: not to draw attention to my own work, or to
- [Reading Stephen King & Writing Horror Shovels](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-stephen-king-writing-horror-shovels/) - Hi friends! Happy Thursday. I hope you had a really wonderful holiday mid-week and are finding yourselves back in the full swing of things. The last few days, since celebrating my birthday, my anniversary, and the 4th of July, I've been doing a lot of reading and a far bit more writing than I
- [In Honor of Marni Ludwig: Five Poems](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/in-honor-of-marni-ludwig-five-poems/) - In honor of the excellent poet, Marni Ludwig, here are five poems: Four of hers and one of mine. All my love today to Marni, her family, and her friends.
- [In Honor of Linda Gregg: One Poem (For Now)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/in-honor-of-linda-gregg-one-poem-for-now/) - Today I heard of the passing of Linda Gregg, a poet I unfortunately did not know. To honor her, as I honor any poet who has died, I read her work for the first time. It's heart-wrenching. This is my take on my first experience with Linda Gregg, and a poem of hers I hope will never let me go.
- [Need Inspiration for the New Year? Here's My Reading List for 2023.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/need-inspiration-for-the-new-year-heres-my-reading-list-for-2023/) - I always enjoy the new year: the excitement, the hope, and of course, the resolutions. In the last few years, it's become especially important to me to plan my year well and to create goals for myself that would serve me in becoming the writer, freelancer, and book designer I want to be. But as
- [Counting Down to the New Year: Five of My Favorite Books of 2014](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/counting-down-to-the-new-year-five-of-my-favorite-books-of-2014/) - Happy New Year, all! I hope you had a wonderful celebration of the upcoming new year and were able to spend some time recounting the good memories of 2014. Along with going to school and becoming a mom, this was definitely a year for reading and reviewing books. I learned a great deal this
- [An Interview with Shaindel Beers!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/an-interview-with-shaindel-beers/) - My interview with Shaindel Beers, hosted by The Rumpus, is here! It features thoughts on Shaindel's writing process, SECURE YOUR OWN MASK, nature and violence, and our mutual experiences of the Midwest and motherhood. Enjoy!
- [Yours Truly is Going To Be a Judge!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/yours-truly-is-going-to-be-a-judge/) - A fun announcement for today, friends! I'll be one of three of 2019's INSPY Speculative Fiction judges!
- [My Review of Angela Voras-Hills' LOUDER BIRDS is Now Live at Green Mountains Review!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-review-of-angela-voras-hills-louder-birds-is-now-live-at-green-mountains-review/) - Happy News! I'm pleased to announce my poetry review of Angela Voras-Hills' LOUDER BIRDS from Pleiades Press, 2020, is now live at Green Mountains Review!
- [Your Next YA Graphic Novel Pick Is Sprinkled with Spooks, Awkward Love, and Magic in Balazs Lorinczi’s DOUGHNUTS AND DOOM](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/balazs-lorinczis-doughnuts-and-doom/) - Happy Friday, friends! We are officially one week into September, which of course means it's spooky season---which means it's time to break out the pumpkins, the decor, and of course, the spooky reads. First up this season is a graphic novel that was light on the spooks and heavy on the adorable in Balazs Lorinczi's
- [Read "The Duplex" Free Now!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/read-the-duplex-free-now/) - The day is finally here! Please enjoy reading my story, "The Duplex," for free throughout the month of October. The full-length collection, WHAT WE FIND IN THE DARK, will be here October 29!
- [A Night of Building a Manuscript & Reading Poetry](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-night-of-building-a-manuscript-reading-poetry/) - Here's a quick snapshot of my Labor Day weekend! The Good Place, IT, reading poetry, and compiling my poetry manuscript!
- [New (Dinosaur) Poem: Parking Lot](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-dinosaur-poem-parking-lot/) - Happy Friday, friends! I hope you all have some marvelous plans for the weekend. I've been doing client work and going through submissions for Lit Shark Magazine all week, and this weekend, I'm attending the livestream of Mississippi's first-ever banned book festival to cover for the Banned Book Review. One of the features on Lit
- [OMG, Lit Shark is LIVE (and Ready to Sink Its Teeth into Some Submissions!)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/omg-lit-shark-is-live-and-ready-to-sink-its-teeth-into-some-submissions/) - Happy Wednesday, everyone! I hope you've had a wonderful week. I'm going to keep this one brief, but it's only January 11th, and one of my goals for 2023 is already coming true: to launch Lit Shark Magazine after pondering it for about five years. Suddenly launching the Banned Book Review doesn't feel like such
- [Happy New Year! Here's What to Expect in 2023.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/happy-new-year-heres-what-to-expect-in-2023/) - Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful New Year's celebration and are excited about what's to come in 2023. I had a quiet evening at home with my family, but in the past week in particular, I've put a great deal of thought into what I want to accomplish this year. Publishing
- [New Poem: Midwestern Breakfast](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-midwestern-breakfast/) - If a cornfield were a Midwestern ocean---here's a new little poem by me. Enjoy! #amwriting #writingpoems #newpoem #poetry #TikTok #ElyseMyers
- [Reading Franz Wright](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-franz-wright/) - Happy Wednesday! Here are four poems by Franz Wright, from his Selected and New Poetry collection, ILL LIT.
- [In Sickness & In New Years: Becoming Her 2022](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/becoming-her-2022/) - Hi friends! Happy Monday and Happy New Year! This isn't so much an end-of-year recap as it is a reflection of what I want 2022 to be. Regardless, it's a long one, so buckle up. I'm so grateful you're here. I don't know about you, but it's been a real roller-coaster in my house for
- [We'll Never Know What We're Leaving Behind: Reading SWIMMING LESSONS by Claire Fuller](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/swimming-lessons-claire-fuller/) - At once troubling and lovely, infuriating and breathtaking, Claire Fuller's SWIMMING LESSONS is a triumph in literary fiction---and one that demands you have your next read ready if you want any chance to cope.
- [I'm Getting All the Jewel-Vibes from This News that Halsey's First Poetry Collection Is Coming This September.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/halsey-poetry-collection-jewel-vibes/) - I'm getting ALL the Jewel vibes from this news that Grammy-nominated musician Halsey has a poetry collection coming out this September.
- [New Poem: A Seagull Makes A Lone Call, Off-Course (after Sylvia Plath)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-a-seagull-makes-a-lone-call-off-course-after-sylvia-plath/) - Happy Friday, friends! Here's a new poem of mine, based on Sylvia Plath's "Little Fugue." Enjoy!
- [New Poem: In The Morning, Where I Walk (after Sylvia Plath)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-in-the-morning-where-i-walk-after-sylvia-plath/) - Happy late Wednesday night, all! Close to midnight, here is a new poem of mine, influenced by Sylvia Plath's "Blackberrying" and the act of social distancing. Enjoy!
- [Happy National Poetry Month! Poem of the Day: Angela Voras-Hills](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/happy-national-poetry-month-poem-of-the-day-angela-voras-hills/) - Happy Wednesday, and Happy National Poetry Month! For today's poem, we have Angela Voras-Hills' "On My Way Home," from her collection, LOUDER BIRDS. Enjoy!
- [A New Poem: Social Distancing & What's Left Of It---](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-new-poem-social-distance-whats-left/) - Happy Monday, all! Here's a new poem, by me, about social distancing and the ongoing pandemic, while trying to find new beauty in the world. Enjoy.
- [Reading Louise Glück: 4 Days until Halloween](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-louise-gluck-4-days-until-halloween/) - "And the wife leaning out the window with her hand extended, as in payment, and the seeds distinct, gold, calling" - from Louise Glück's "All Hallows." Enjoy! We have four more days until Halloween!
- [Reading Rae Armantrout: 5 Days until Halloween](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-rae-armantrout-5-days-until-halloween/) - "Haunted, they say, believing the soft, shifty dunes are made up of..." - from "Djinn" by Rae Armantrout. Enjoy! We have 5 more days until Halloween!
- [Are You Telling Me---I Could Go for a Writer's Retreat at Stephen King's House?](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/are-you-telling-me-i-could-go-for-a-writers-retreat-at-stephen-kings-house/) - Great news! Stephen and Tabitha King are talking about converting their iconic Maine home into a writer's archive AND writer's retreat! Here's what I know so far. Enjoy!
- [Tell Me Now: Is Harry Potter Coming to NYC?](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tell-me-now-is-harry-potter-coming-to-the-big-apple/) - Fellow Potterheads! Is Harry Potter coming to NYC? Here's what I know so far. Enjoy!
- [Tuesday Motivation: How Can We Keep a "Manifest Mindset" in the World of Freelance?](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tuesday-motivation-manifest-mindset-in-freelance-world/) - Tuesdays are for motivation! This week, I'm tackling the mindset of manifestation, and how we can keep seeing opportunities for what they are in this big, competitive world of freelance.
- [Celebrate with Me! I'm a Poetry Reader for Muzzle Magazine!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/celebrate-with-me-im-a-poetry-reader-for-muzzle-magazine/) - Celebrate with me! I'm one of the new Poetry Readers for Muzzle Magazine!
- [An Inspiring Day in Kalamazoo: Poems](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/an-inspiring-day-in-kalamazoo-poems/) - Happy Sunday, all! I had a wonderful, literary weekend, celebrating with Bill Olsen, New Issues Poetry & Prose, and fellow writer friends. Here are a few poems I loved from my weekend; enjoy!
- [New Poem Tonight: "To the Dark Who Follows Me After My Second Child is Born"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-tonight-to-the-dark-who-follows-me-after-my-second-child-is-born/) - A new poem tonight, "To the Dark Who Follows Me After My Second Child is Born"
- ["Exit Strategies" featured in great weather for MEDIA's latest anthology!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/exit-strategies-featured-in-great-weather-for-medias-latest-anthology/) - I'm pleased to share my poem, "Exit Strategies," was featured in this year's anthology from great weather for MEDIA!
- [New Poem Tonight: "Nightlight, a celebration"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-tonight-nightlight-a-celebration/) - Here's my latest poem draft---"Nightlight, a celebration." Enjoy, and thanks for the read!
- [New Poem Tonight: "Light in the Field"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-tonight-light-in-the-field/) - Here's a new poem-in-progress, "Light in the Field." Enjoy!
- ["Daughter Wild" featured in Young Ravens Literary Review!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/daughter-wild-featured-in-young-ravens-literary-review/) - Hi all! I'm pleased to share my poem, "Daughter Wild," was featured in Issue 10 of Young Ravens Literary Review!
- [New Poem Tonight: "An Accord"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-tonight-an-accord/) - Another hiatus, but here is a short poem I wrote today, based on a lovely poet's musings and sheer volume of bees I've seen this summer in my front yard. Enjoy!
- [12 Books Your Mom Will Love: 2019 Edition](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/12-books-mom-will-love-2019/) - TGIF! It's almost time for Mother's Day! In case you still need to get your mom a gift, here's a round-up of 12 strong, bookish contenders! #MothersDay #Books #GiftIdeas #BooksforMom #nonfiction #fiction #YA #memoir #inspirational
- [My Poem, "Bad Omens," Was a Winner in the Vocal Poets' 2019 Contest!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/bad-omens-winner-vocal-poets-2019-contest/) - My poem, "Bad Omens," was one of four winners of Vocal Poets' 2019 Poetry-in-Motion Poetry Contest! Read on for the winners and a very cool visual representation of my poem!
- [Happy National Poetry Month! How Am I Celebrating?](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/happy-national-poetry-month-how-am-i-celebrating/) - Happy National Poetry Month!bGet ready---here's how I'll be celebrating this month!
- [Poem of the Day: James Wright](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-james-wright/) - Happy Friday! Today's poem of the day is "A Blessing" by James Wright. Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Jennifer Jackson Berry](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-jennifer-jackson-berry/) - Late to the game today, but here is Wednesday's Poem of the Day: "Lost & Found Love Poem with Oranges & Trash" by Jennifer Jackson Berry! Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Linda Gregg](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-linda-gregg/) - For today's Poem of the Day, here is Linda Gregg's poem, "Hard Season." Enjoy!
- [Poem of the Day: Mary Oliver](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-of-the-day-mary-oliver/) - Happy Monday! And Welcome Back to my Poem of the Day Series. To start us off, here is a lovely one by Mary Oliver, "How I Go to the Woods." Enjoy!
- [There's a New Series Coming! How Do I Submit?](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-series-how-to-submit/) - Happy Sunday! I'm grateful to announce the re-launch of my Poem of the Day Series, in addition to my new arrivals, Favorite Fiction Friday and Saturday Spotlight. Read on to see how to submit!
- [The (Im)Precision of Language, Nature, & Violence: Reading Shaindel Beers' Secure Your Own Mask](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/book-review-secure-your-own-mask/) - Here is my complete book review of Shaindel Beers' SECURE YOUR OWN MASK, from White Pine Press (2018). Enjoy!
- [New Poem, New Project!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/new-poem-new-project/) - After a long creative hiatus, here is a new poem! Enjoy!
- [Happy New Year! What's the Word for 2019?](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/happy-new-year-word-for-2019/) - Happy New Year, friends! Here is my word for 2019, why I chose it, and what I hope to do with it. What's your word for 2019?
- [Reading Shaindel Beers](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-shaindel-beers/) - Select, favorite poems from Shaindel Beers' incredible collection, SECURE YOUR OWN MASK, from White Pine Press (2018) and winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
- [Book Review Up at BookPage!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/book-review-up-at-bookpage/) - Here is a link to my review of K. Arsenault Rivera's THE PHOENIX EMPRESS, available now over at BookPage.
- ["My Face Resembles / The One Reflected in the Water": Reading David Dodd Lee's And Others, Vaguer Presences](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/review-david-dodd-lee-and-others-vaguer-presences/) - The thing that I love about erasure poetry is how interactive it can (and should!) be with the original work it is pulling from. I think, for some writers who attempt this form, the goal is to reinvent the words that are on the page, than to accept them and attempt to draw something
- [Reading David Dodd Lee](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-david-dodd-lee-2/) - Happy Sunday, all! As fellow readers, book lovers, and writers, I know you have authors and books in your back pocket that you find yourself returning to from time to time. Maybe it’s an annual thing, maybe it’s when you’re having a rough time, or are in a creative slump. For me, one of those
- [Hello Fall! Here's What's Coming in October.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hello-fall-heres-whats-coming-in-october/) - Hi everyone and Happy Tuesday! And HAPPY FALL! This is my favorite-favorite time of year: the weather is just how I like it, I love all the colors and smells, pumpkins and costumes, creepy things, and the impending doom that is winter and all that I always pile on myself around this time of year.
- [Today: Three Tiny Poems](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/today-three-tiny-poems/) - BAR TALK You remind me of a father figure---not my real father who I leave absent from my poems. Maybe for him, there are too few words, or maybe I prefer him like a ghost: imprinted on walls. More words I can leave scattered on his grave. WINTER BIRTHDAY To the sister who has
- [July 22: This Week's Publishing Round-Up](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/july-22-this-weeks-publishing-round-up/) - Hi friends! Happy (very early) Sunday! I hope you enjoyed your week, are able to rest this Sunday, and are looking forward to the start of the new week. This week was sort of a game-changer for me. I've written on here before, and discussed with some of you personally, what it's like being
- ["Sleepwalker" & The Inspiration Behind It](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/sleepwalker-the-inspiration-behind-it/) - Happy Thursday, everyone! I'm arriving a tad late to the party again today, but I hope you each had a wonderful day, and I appreciate, again, you joining me in my writing journey. I've been doing things a little differently this week, writing every day, with a combination of free-style pieces and prompt-driven work.
- ["I Remember Her Hair" & The Prompt That Led Me Here](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/i-remember-her-hair-the-prompt-that-led-me-here/) - Happy Wednesday, everyone! I hope you're all enjoying your week. I'm doing things a little differently this week, writing poems every day, but in a mix of free-writing and prompted writing. Here is my poem for today, and the prompt that inspired it. Thanks for being here, and thanks for the read. I hope
- ["Where It's Gone" & The Prompt Behind It](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/where-its-gone-the-prompt-behind-it/) - Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday! I'm doing things a little differently starting this week, sharing a poem and the writing prompt behind it (I'm back to writing poems each day, some written free-style, and some by prompt). I know I'm a little late to the party today, but I still wanted to check in. Here
- ["All My Things Are Empty Now" & The Prompt That Wrote It](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/all-my-things-are-empty-now-the-prompt-that-wrote-it/) - Hello, everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend and are enjoying your Monday. Starting this week, I'm going to do something a little different. I'm back to writing every day, with a mixture of free-writing and prompt-driven writing. I'm going to share a poem each day that is driven by a prompt, followed
- [What Growing Up Tastes Like](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/what-growing-up-tastes-like/) - --A poem today after a long hiatus ---Happy International Day of the Girl WHAT GROWING UP TASTES LIKE I sit with my windows open, drink of the air as if it were the gumdrop from childhood that never melted, that never tasted quite like the color coating implied: daffodil yellow, all-of-your-dreams-come-true- blue,
- [My Reading with Write Night! Next Up: Dinosaurs.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-reading-with-write-night-next-up-dinosaurs/) - Last night, I had the extremely great opportunity to perform as one of the five Selected Readers for Lit Literary Collective's Write Night in May, organized by Krista Cox and Ultreia, Inc. Thank you, to Krista and Lit Literary and everyone, for having me. I haven't read in over a year, and I needed
- [Reading at LangLab Tonight! & Poem Featured as Creative Writing Prompt](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-at-langlab-tonight-poem-featured-as-creative-writing-prompt/) - Hi everyone! I hope you're all enjoying your week. Two pieces of fun news for this afternoon--- I'll be reading tonight among friends at LangLab in South Bend at 7pm as a part of Lit Literary Collective's WRITE NIGHT with Ultreia, Inc. You can find more about it here; I hope you'll join us!
- [A Walk in the Snow](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-walk-in-the-snow/) - When we were younger, we leveled footprints in the woods---off the path, of course, down deep where the sun could barely find us, where we blended with the trees and hid behind the shrubbery. I found a deer, small, its eyes glazed and wide, still hiding from the storm the night before. Left berries.
- [My Dumb Heart](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-dumb-heart/) - ---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 to think that I am more than a wallflower, that others see something in me, that the love I feel swells out
- [Dear Emily---](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dear-emily/) - ---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 a spare blanket meant for
- ["Black Light / Her Name in a Cup": Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee's Animalities](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-david-dodd-lees-animalities/) - 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 from poetry, to be understood, to be had. Like a
- [A Poem with a Gun Inside](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-poem-with-a-gun-inside/) - It beats. It hums. My heart--- what else could beat so cold and low as this : make me a list. give me a kiss : Kalamazoo, I love you. Paris, Baghdad, and Beruit, I love you. What more harm can we inflict than gunfire on a summer’s day, a winter walk, what life
- [Her Heart of Hearts & The Art of Discovery: Reading Jackie Haze's Borderless](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/her-heart-of-hearts-the-art-of-discovery-reading-jackie-hazes-borderless/) - When I think of highways, I think of other cars, the open road, corn fields. I think of how limitless, how borderless these highways can be, allowing us to go straight, turn left, or turn right, as we please. But there are also barricades: toll roads, No U-Turn signs, and Detour Turn Left/Right; these
- ['This is Not a Pipe': The Powers of Nature & Grief over Perception & Definition: Reading Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/this-is-not-a-pipe-the-powers-of-nature-grief-over-perception-definition-reading-ross-gays-catalog-of-unabashed-gratitude/) - I don’t know about you, but in my mind, perception and grief are united. This is not to say that one cannot exist without the other, but only that our perceptions vary based on our state of mind---especially when we are talking about grief. On an average, typical day, we know very well that
- [Black & White Poetry Jam This Weekend!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/black-white-poetry-jam-this-weekend/) - Hi everyone! I have a great event to share with you! This Saturday, right before the Bowl, is the Black and White Poetry Jam at the Potawatomi Greenhouse Conservatory, right across the street from Indiana University South Bend, backed up against Kids' Kingdom. Here is all of the information I have on the event,
- [Two Poems up at Birds Piled Loosely Today!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/two-poems-up-at-birds-piled-loosely-today/) - Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my poems, "You Fill another Page" and "Gunshots and Fireworks are Sort of the Same in the End." are both up at Birds Piled Loosely today! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving these poems a home; I am so happy
- [big poem, small poem / new poem sure / longer poem, brighter poem / birds birds birds](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/big-poem-small-poem-new-poem-sure-longer-poem-brighter-poem-birds-birds-birds/) - Hello all! It's been a while again, I know. I've been missing writing in the worse way but otherwise wrapped up in my new job, writing a new bio: McKenzie lives and writes in South Bend, where she works at Indiana University, etc. It's been a blast, but I've only been writing what I
- [Two Poems up at New Mexico Review today!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/two-poems-up-at-new-mexico-review-today/) - Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my poems, "Excavation," and "Passing through My Neighbor's Backyard," are both up at New Mexico Review today! Dear Editors, especially Tyler Mills, thank you so much for this recognition and giving these poems a home; I am so happy to be a part of this
- [The Gun Joke](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-gun-joke/) - THE GUN JOKE It’s funny, she says, how many people are shocked by this shooting and the next and next and the next. She doesn’t mean funny as in funny, but funny as in blood soup tastes funny when you stir in soil. Stop me if you haven’t heard this one: A young
- [Poetic Donations! #poeticdonations](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poetic-donations-poeticdonations/) - Hi, all! The holidays are upon us, and for many of us, so is the winter chill (with or without the snow yet), and I have an idea just in time for the holidays that could be beneficial to everyone! Contact me, either over on Facebook or at mcklynntozan (at) gmail (dot) com, and
- [Poem up at Whale Road Review today!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-up-at-whale-road-review-today/) - Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my dinosaur poem, "Shopping for T-Rex," is up at Whale Road Review today! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home; I am so happy to be a part of your premiere issue... Here's to many, many more!
- [What They Did Yesterday Afternoon](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 happened?
- [Reading Wallace Stevens](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-wallace-stevens/) - THE SNOW MAN One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of
- [Dialogue of the Body, Dialogue of a Storm: Reading Sandra Marchetti's Confluence](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dialogue-of-the-body-dialogue-of-a-storm-reading-sandra-marchettis-confluence/) - Sometimes I find myself thinking so much about what poetry is or what it can do that I forget to think about how it can make me feel. Perhaps that is the sign of a lesser poetry, a poetry with holes in it: one that goes through the motions, the mechanics, of writing, but
- [Reading Sandra Marchetti](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-sandra-marchetti/) - STORM DIALOGUE Storms turn on their stomachs and gain on us. Cloud decks smoke the windows. Beating cold. Rain comes in shifts and pisses. Moving west is the gesture; the skies shave the city gray. The eastern sky is filled hammocks, storms twin up like rough moons rising. Off over our minds, over
- ["Where I Write" Feature in Rogue Agent Today!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/where-i-write-feature-in-rogue-agent-today/) - Hi, everyone! In case you haven't heard elsewhere, I was featured in this month's "Where I Create" gallery, up at Rogue Agent. I sent in a snapshot of where I write most often in my home, as well as a picture of my most-constant writing companion, Kovu. Here's another picture of him "helping" me
- [Two Truths & A Lie](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/two-truths-a-lie/) - My future & my past are essentially the same: whether it is me or her riding in the back seat, I still have to ask permission of my mother or daughter if I can go anywhere. I traded in my happiness like a receipt for defective batteries, & the world keeps turning without me.
- [My "Apology" Broadside from Tracey Knapp's Mouth is Here!!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-apology-broadside-from-tracey-knapps-mouth-is-here/) - I have some very cool news to share with you all today. Last year around this time, I posted a question on Facebook: “Friends, poets, writers, if there were an easily-accessed venue to have broadsides of your work made, how many of you would take advantage of such a service?” And the feedback was
- [Reading Tracey Knapp](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-tracey-knapp/) - TO THE NEW MOON Come night. Come sirens and midnight babies born in the backseats of taxicabs. Come moon. You crazy weeping alcoholic, quit drinking yourself into nothingness. Someone’s trumpet has gone missing tonight. Someone is looking for you, holding your hairbrush to the nose of a bloodhound. Leave your shadow on the
- [Tracey Knapp Reading at IU South Bend Tomorrow!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tracey-knapp-reading-at-iu-south-bend-tomorrow/) - Hi everyone! Just in case you haven't heard, poet Tracey Knapp will be reading at IU South Bend tomorrow night at 7:30pm on the Bridge on the third floor of Weikamp Hall. She will be reading from her first full-length collection, Mouth, published by 42 Miles Press, and there will be books for sale
- ["Look Where That Has Gotten Me": The Potential Self-Awareness & Honesty of Poetry: Reading Tracey Knapp's Mouth](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/look-where-that-has-gotten-me-the-potential-self-awareness-honesty-of-poetry-reading-tracey-knapps-mouth/) - Let me begin by playing a round of Two Truths and a Lie... We all know how this works, right? The speaker shares two truths about themselves, and a lie, but the lie must not be easily distinguished from the two truths, and the other players are supposed to guess which statement is a
- [Poem in this year's The Spooklet!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-in-this-years-the-spooklet/) - Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my surrealist poem, "The Healer," is in this year's The Spooklet! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home and for all the work you put into these awesome, individualized, hand-made editions. So, readers! If you're interested in
- [In a Field, The Absence of Field](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/in-a-field-the-absence-of-field/) - or heart---like breathing, you enter waist-high grasses, the tan of prairie dog, fern, wild lily, & the wind takes you up into itself, your body curves & sways with the grasses, canvas, Magritte of the field & passing. How you ended up here, you are unsure, but you arrived wearing nothing but air, &
- [I Treat Your Swollen Ankle](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/i-treat-your-swollen-ankle/) - propped on a pillow on our oversized coffee table, all of our ice packs lost in the move, & I try to talk to you about my impending job loss, another poem rejected by a favorite magazine, & you fill the room with pleasant thoughts
- [The Rhythm of Reading & Hearing Poetry: Reading Three Beautiful Collections by Susan Lewis](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-rhythm-of-reading-hearing-poetry-reading-three-beautiful-collections-by-susan-lewis/) - Do you ever find yourself in a reading slump? Or too unreasonably busy to even consider finding a way to fit reading in? And when you finally do have the time and energy, do you find yourself searching for that writing style that just throws you back in, every time? Well, this summer, as
- [Oregon, Columbine, October, November, December---](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/oregon-columbine-october-november-december/) - I think of you, fellow teacher, and I fear what lies on the other side of the door, the window, the rain. What power lies in waiting, what anger, what brown paper bag concealing fire. I lean back in my desk chair and make myself a little smaller, blend into the fibers. We are
- [Poem up at Rogue Agent today!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-up-at-rogue-agent-today/) - Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my poem, "Memory Stone," (which is arguably my best poem about the grieving process) is up at Rogue Agent Journal today! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home; I was one of the fortunate ones to hear
- [Poem up on Thank You for Swallowing today!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-up-on-thank-you-for-swallowing-today/) - Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my wedding night poem, "Undress," is up at Thank You for Swallowing today, alongside my all-awesome, only-for-Thank-You-for-Swallowing duckface. Dear Editor, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home; I am extremely appreciative of your aim and everything you've accomplished, and
- [I Will Vandalize His Angel Tombstone](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/i-will-vandalize-his-angel-tombstone/) - And it is from this moment that you are going to live. Think of that. You’re standing in the middle of what used to be a cornfield, now pocketed with headstones and wire, combing out a space that says this is where we lay our dead, take whatever you want. You have changed: you
- [Hey!! A New Feature is Coming to My Blog Very, Very Soon!!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hey-a-new-feature-is-coming-to-my-blog-very-very-soon/) - Yesterday evening, I wrote a sort of long-time-no-see post, followed by a post that very well may have opened a huge door for me. I shared how a poem from my earlier writing life had hugely intersected with a specific incident from my day yesterday, and I came to a realization after sharing that
- [First, She was a Poem: Cadence on the Swings](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/first-she-was-a-poem-cadence-on-the-swings/) - I had a bit of a moment today, and I really have to share. In the picture to your left is my beautiful, nine-and-a-half-month old daughter, Cadence (yes, like the title), and she had her first turn on a swing today---one of those little, infant-safe ones on a backyard playground set. And then it
- [Writing My Summer Away: In the Early Days after My MFA](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/writing-my-summer-away-in-the-early-days-after-my-mfa/) - Hello, everyone! Needless to say, it’s been a while---sorry for the radio silence. As some of you know, I graduated this May with my MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan, and my life since then hasn’t quite been what you would have expected. As my younger self, I would have expected myself to have
- ["The Way Poetry Evokes Things / Only Potentially There": Perception, Identity & Heritage: Reading Allan Peterson's Precarious](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-way-poetry-evokes-things-only-potentially-there-perception-identity-heritage-reading-allan-petersons-precarious/) - In the quiet moments, when we stop to take a breath and think, we may realize that all of our thoughts, our questions, our hopes, are connected---that is to say, back to two main ideas: Where am I going? and Where have I been? Again, as if to say something toward longevity, What am
- [My Attempt at a Definition Poem while Reading Allan Peterson](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-attempt-at-a-definition-poem-while-reading-allan-peterson/) - This is why I love reading: it opens so many doors. While reading Allan Peterson's Precarious (published by 42 Miles Press, 2014), I began to consider less-than-common terms, synonyms that are so interesting and unique that we often do not use---for instance, why use the term "precarious" when we could just as easily say
- [Reading Allan Peterson](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-allan-peterson/) - CONTINENTAL We were sinking The windows were filling with cities as if poured into glasses No one was thinking of drowning No one thinking air ship but there we were submerging A captain turned off the cabin lights We folded our tables headed down quietly The moon holding its breath floated up KNOWLEDGE
- [The Waking, Danger & Consent of the Body & Love: Reading Lisa Mangini's Bird Watching at the End of the World](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-waking-danger-consent-of-the-body-love-reading-lisa-manginis-bird-watching-at-the-end-of-the-world/) - When we spend a lot of time reading poetry, I know we can become critical of the pursuit of love and the defining of boundaries in poetry---but sometimes, a poet chooses to address these exact topics, and they get everything right: they create something new, something meaningful, something entirely worth reading, whether it is
- [Clark Kent is a Super Hipster: The Art of Finding Beauty in the Absurd & the Mundane: Reading Shawnte Orion's The Existentialist Cookbook](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/clark-kent-is-a-super-hipster-the-art-of-finding-beauty-in-the-absurd-the-mundane-reading-shawnte-orions-the-existentialist-cookbook/) - Here I am, attempting to think of what to say, but my coffee spilled, and it made such a lovely and dark display across my table. This is the sort of mindset in which Shawnte Orion places me: an area of in-the-moment appreciation, the odd humor of something spilled and its preoccupation with gaining
- [Journeying Through the Fear Tactic That Is the Subtle & the Severe: Reading Sarah Rose Nordgren's Best Bones](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/journeying-through-the-fear-tactic-that-is-the-subtle-the-severe-reading-sarah-rose-nordgrens-best-bones/) - Before I get started, I have a (positive!) confession to make: I wrote this review four times. I read a lot of poetry, but it’s rare to discover a collection that is unique in its severity, one that equally makes you cringe and keeps you reading with mutual ease. And this, by far, was
- [Stages of Fear & Domestication: Reading Laura Madeline Wiseman's Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/stages-of-fear-domestication-reading-laura-madeline-wisemans-some-fatal-effects-of-curiosity-and-disobedience/) - Click here to see my review of American Galactic. You’ve heard the stories---two children lost out in the woods, little girl in a red-hooded cloak, three little pigs---we all have. And, admittedly, I have “red” many poetry collections (whether or not intentionally) that focus exclusively on the fairy tale, though I have never read
- [Costume or Skin, A Reckoning: Reading Laura Madeline Wiseman's American Galatic](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/costume-or-skin-a-reckoning-reading-laura-madeline-wisemans-american-galatic/) - Click here to see my review of Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience. We’ve all been there---wondered about life, the afterlife, and whether there could be life on other planets. These are interesting questions, because, to the common wonderer (someone who isn’t a scientist or theologist, and someone who hasn’t somehow miraculously died
- [Grief as Celebration & Grief as Beauty: Reading Michalle Gould's Resurrection Party](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/grief-as-celebration-grief-as-beauty-reading-michalle-goulds-resurrection-party-2/) - We all have such differing definitions and expectations of grief. When asked to define grief, love, beauty, we often begin to play a game of word association, or we resort to metaphors and personification. Pain and sorrow. My heart hurts. It’s like a well that never fills up. But when I think about grief...
- [Tomorrow!! At the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts!!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tomorrow-at-the-kalamazoo-institute-of-the-arts/) - Everyone! Wonderful news: I have plans for you for your Friday night! As a part of the Greater Kalamazoo Art Hop, the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts will be hosting a reading for their art exhibit, Second Sight/Insight II, which is in its second year of ekphrastic pairings. Back in October, poets were encouraged
- [The Two (or More?) Sides of Friendship: Reading Rufi Thorpe's The Girls from Corona del Mar](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-two-or-more-sides-of-friendship-reading-rufi-thorpes-the-girls-from-corona-del-mar/) - We all have to grow up someday. And some of us are dealt a better hand than others---some during our childhood, others later in life, and even others not at all. But we find a way to persist, to perceive the world and how to function within its barriers. We learn how to love,
- [The Manger](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-manger/) - Merry Christmas, Everyone! Whether or not you're a believer, I hope you enjoy your day with friends and family, build a snowman or stay inside by the fire. Here's a new poem to read while you drink something warm. THE MANGER For years I lived across the street from a house, come
- [Halcyon](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/halcyon/) - Like nothing, you wield these leaves & branches from miles around into your fortress, your own floating box. Wings spread & your partner’s---& the calls over the water. What power. What control. The unruly terrain falls. How I wish I were you, too beautiful & blue to be viewed from a distance, the blending
- [Caterpillar Towns](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/caterpillar-towns-2/) - consider their bodies---each separate bead a head---the string of brains arch like drumming fingers, or rather, the knuckles. survival in a smaller form. like a child pouring out onto a table, the wide mouth of an incision, a closed door. you left me open there, leaves & breath. Puddles Pity Party like a dream
- [Solar Panels](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/solar-panels/) - You said we were a senseless pairing---the earth and moon---what if someday the earth falls out of love? Then the moon will fall into, into--- We were waiting for a train, heads under the tunnel eve, rain pouring down, we were reaching out--- what if the earth falls out of love
- [Under Stoplights & Sun](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/under-stoplights-sun/) - What have I learned of compassion? Unharmed, it releases itself as a seatbelt & a bottle of Coke in the morning. Baby strapped down in the backseat, head lolling inside an oversized winter hat. My daughter was a
- [Reading David Dodd Lee](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-david-dodd-lee/) - THE WHITE SEA Spin the big wheel of weather. So it’s seven degrees. I could have sworn it was balmy and getting ready to storm eight minutes ago. One definition of a slob is someone who runs out to the street through a foot of snow in slippers and
- [At Dusk](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/at-dusk/) - Out on a walk, I saw two girls screaming through a two-seater swing, two fans of blonde hair. There was a hill in the way, shoulder-high, and they were nameless, without bodies, the way birds might appear when lying in their nest. I left them against a blood-orange sun and bent around a curve,
- [In Utero](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/in-utero/) - You are becoming too much for me. I find it difficult to read poetry, to read anything. I roll onto my side, the book turning with me, and I feel your body drop onto the bed, weighing me there, small anchor. My lungs have learned a new method of breathing. Everything, all the organs
- [The Reveal](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 there all the time
- [Grief as Meditation, Grief as Art: Reading Meg Day's Last Psalm at Sea Level](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/grief-as-meditation-grief-as-art-reading-meg-days-last-psalm-at-sea-level/) - Writing reviews can be extremely difficult. What’s ironic, though, is that I tend to find greater difficulty in writing a review about a book that I loved, rather than one I was unimpressed with. Perhaps this is because I tend to find some angle of merit in each work that I read---a particular writing
- [Reading Meg Day](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-meg-day/) - THERE'S SNOW IN THE WEST & there’s snow in the east & there’s snow in our beds icing the cabbage. Since you left me alone, the wasp nest swallowing the bulb in the porch light has gone leaden & each night the asphalt is honeycombed in its half- lidded light
- [Moving Forward, Moving Back: Reading Jason Odell Williams' Personal Statement](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/moving-forward-moving-back-reading-jason-odell-williams-personal-statement/) - We’ve all been there. We reached the final year of high school and discovered the college, the school, the job, the career that we wanted, and we attempted to move forward. We did everything we thought we needed to do---and more---to ensure that we would land one of the open seats in the version
- [Receiving an Honorable Mention for My Chapbook!!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 Rae Johnson, Dictionary of Theories, Winner Nicole Burchette, Influence, Winner Eben Gering, (title not released),
- [Our First Night Home](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 moving again. The tremors in your sides and stomach are small fountains
- [Betsy Andrews to Read at IUSB This Wednesday!!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/betsy-andrews-to-read-at-iusb-this-wednesday/) - Mark your calendars! Betsy Andrews will be reading this Wednesday---October 1, 2014---at Indiana University South Bend, hosted by 42 Miles Press and the English Department. Betsy’s poems are powerful and passionately-driven. They are urgent and accelerate the reader forward through their pages, their images,
- [The Bottom: An Interview with Betsy Andrews](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-bottom-an-interview-with-betsy-andrews/) - Click here to view my review of The Bottom. Betsy Andrews' book-length poem, The Bottom, was published by 42 Miles Press in 2014 and received the 2013 42 Miles Poetry Prize. Sections of this poem appeared in such places as Kadar Koli, BoogCity, Stone Canoe and The Laurel Review, as well as Poets for
- [Rhododendron](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/rhododendron-2/) - 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, they have appeared in my poems before. As children, as
- [We Could Do Better, You and I: Ecology, Design and Poetry: Reading Betsy Andrews' The Bottom](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/we-could-do-better-you-and-i-ecology-design-and-poetry-reading-betsy-andrews-the-bottom/) - Click here to view my interview with Betsy Andrews. When I first began reading Betsy Andrews’ book-length poem, The Bottom, I was reminded of an incident that occurred nearly two years ago now. In October of 2012, an article appeared on Slate.com regarding a large, startlingly-blue eye that had washed up on a Florida
- [Reading Betsy Andrews](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-betsy-andrews/) - to sound like itself is what water wants, to look like itself, to feel wet walloped by cinderblock, spars and bottles, the wanting-locked water lay down the wanting-locked water stank without lustre, it stank without lustre and we cut it with knives, we cut it with scissors, the wanting-locked water, we cut it with
- [Interrobang: An Interview with Jessica Piazza](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/interrobang-an-interview-with-jessica-piazza/) - Click here to view my review of Interrobang. Jessica Piazza's first full-length collection, Interrobang, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2013 and was the recipient of the AROHO 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize and the 2013 Balcones Poetry Prize. Poems in this collection appeared in such places as 42 Opus, Anti-,
- [Transforming Her Power, Her Beauty, Her Image: Reading Rebecca Hains' The Princess Problem](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/transforming-her-power-her-beauty-her-image-reading-rebecca-hains-the-princess-problem/) - It’s September, and in a matter of weeks, my first daughter will be born. In a rush of summer cleaning and nesting, reading parenting books and planning-planning-planning, I have also found myself searching for books to begin my daughter’s library, as well as books and resources that may assist in raising my daughter in
- [The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O'Keeffe's The Art of Floating](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-surrealist-and-bodily-nature-of-grief-reading-kristin-bair-okeeffes-the-art-of-floating/) - Even when you read regularly, it takes time to find something truly great; but every once in a while, there will be a book, a poem, a story, that truly turns you on your heel, holds you in place, and keeps you loving, recommending and discussing that piece for months. Though first described to
- [Poetic Advice from a Mother to a Mother-to-Be: Reading Molly Sutton Kiefer's Nestuary](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poetic-advice-from-a-mother-to-a-mother-to-be-reading-molly-sutton-kiefers-nestuary/) - The past thirty-five weeks have not been easy. The actual progression of pregnancy, and the preparations needed for the child once she is born, should be viewed (in my opinion, at least) as two distinct acts that happen to be occurring at the same time. First, there are the physical and emotional demands of
- [False Memory](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/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 stampede of horses. We can
- [The Phobia, the Philia, and the Altered Persona: Reading Jessica Piazza's Interrobang](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-phobia-the-philia-and-the-altered-persona-reading-jessica-piazzas-interrobang/) - Click here to view my follow-up interview with Jessica Piazza! Jessica Piazza’s debut full-length poetry collection, Interrobang, is all at once lovely, inquisitive and complex. I found myself startled by the constant alteration of the persona; the interjection of the phobia and the philia as a backdrop for the persona’s transformation; and Piazza’s mastery
- ["The Snapping Open of a Valve / A Bird's Egg": Reading Kerrin McCadden's Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-snapping-open-of-a-valve-a-birds-egg-reading-kerrin-mccaddens-landscape-with-plywood-silhouettes/) - No matter how long I’ve been reading and writing professionally, it still amazes me how much a little time away can contribute to my appreciation of a larger work. During my first year as the Layout and Design Editor at New Issues Poetry and Prose, I had the extreme benefit of working with Kerrin
- [Reading Kerrin McCadden](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-kerrin-mccadden/) - BECCA She says, It’s my birthday I’m going tomorrow. What’s your favorite font? What should I have him write? Serifs, I say, I like serifs. I like old typewriters---the keys little platters. I don’t answer the question about what to write. The vellum of her back. I am not her mother, who later
- [A Unique Design of Women and Culture: Reading Desiree Zamorano's The Amado Women](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-unique-design-of-women-and-culture-reading-desiree-zamoranos-the-amado-women/) - After reading Désirée Zamorano’s The Amado Women, many readers have claimed to have found a new story with women who are more properly, culturally portrayed, an interesting story which offers new commentary on the larger themes of love and loss, family and finding strength in numbers and learning from our past. As I begin
- [The Power of Grief, The Power of Hallucination, The Power of YA Literature: Reading Rebekah Crane's Aspen](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-power-of-grief-the-power-of-hallucination-the-power-of-ya-literature-reading-rebekah-cranes-aspen/) - Let me point one fact out from the beginning: I admire young adult literature, and I believe it can be extremely powerful when the central characters are confident, self-possessed individuals, dealing with both personal and more widely-recognized issues. Rebekah Crane’s Aspen does not fall short of this; rather, as I will delve into in
- [Highway / Windmill](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/highway-windmill/) - Asphalt and salt, the tires burning in the heat. The crops are dying. Brittle limbs, the yellow tinge, still reaching upwards. And then the windmills---their large, mechanical frames, the hooked fingers, spinning in the slowest circles. The power. And
- [Insight from a Dreamscape](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/insight-from-a-dreamscape/) - “One day when I was really pushing through, writing every last word, it occurred to me there is nothing more wholesome than having great knowledge in literature. You are pure, and insightful, and brave in ways you never imagined when you are intelligent in books; and look how much more beautiful you are when
- [The River Turns White](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-river-turns-white/) - with skyline and sun. The dark shapes on the water are like turtle shells, inverted and empty, then sinking as the sun moves higher. Fish rising and falling with sea and storm.
- [Reading Jennifer K. Sweeney](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-jennifer-k-sweeney/) - ADOLESCENCE 1 In the scoliosis clinic, I waited in a room of skeletons while men reshaped the architecture of my sister, spongy discs stacked in S-curves like haunted seahorses, undulant when I shifted a protuberance side to side in my thumb and forefinger and the reticulated whip rippled to the tailbone. From the
- [Preparing the Way for My Daughter: Reading Lori Day's Her Next Chapter](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/preparing-the-way-for-my-daughter-reading-lori-days-her-next-chapter/) - Upon reading Lori Day’s Her Next Chapter: How Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Girls Navigate Malicious Media, Risky Relationships, Girl Gossip, and So Much More, I am completely floored with possibilities. Her Next Chapter, at first glance, may be meant as an organizational tool for beginning and maintaining effective Mother-Daughter book clubs (which is
- [Midday](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/midday/) - I am passing through my neighbor’s backyard, and I stop, because her patio door is open. The sun is there, pouring over a table and chairs, all those rhododendrons and pollen. In all that light, I can see up the stairs and into her living room, where the woman is sleeping on her couch,
- [The Spectrum of Mood & Mind: Reading Kyle Muntz's Green Lights](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-spectrum-of-mood-mind-reading-kyle-muntzs-green-lights/) - Dreamscape; Existentialism; Echoes of Religion and Tradition---these, among others, represent the themes that are presented to us, and challenge us, in the reading of Kyle Muntz’s Green Lights, a novella structured within a surrealist neighborhood that responds to and depends upon the current spectral landscape. That is to say, color, and the narrator’s fixation
- [Progress Report](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/progress-report/) - She will live inside me for three more months. Of this I am certain: we are running on time. We are progressing at the recommended rate. But she is still so small, not even two pounds, and she lies completely connected. There are days when I want to fill her room with flowers and
- [Waiting for a Femoral Head Ostectomy: A Painting](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/waiting-for-a-femoral-head-ostectomy-a-painting/) - After two days hiding under the bed, my cat emerges, carrying his back leg as if useless, the toes on the supporting paw spread wide for balance. He continues like this, eyes wide and dilated, a growl that returns most evenings as the pain sets back in. It flowers, like the spread paws, back
- [World Cup 2014](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/world-cup-2014/) - thinking of Ashley Capps' Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields I’m watching the first of the games, and all I can think of is how true that could be, here---their bodies suspended over all that green. The white uniforms and the legs bent like V’s, the swastika bodies, always turning and returning across
- [Reading Poems---The Art of Dabbling](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-poems-the-art-of-dabbling/) - Sometimes---particularly when life feels a little too busy, or the days need a little more structure (like the summer!)---I find myself immersed in the art of what I’ve come to call “dabbling.” This might mean simply browsing around on Google, or the newest Best American Poetry, specifically looking at names I do not recognize
- [China Cabinet](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/china-cabinet/) - Listen---we are not discussing private matters. We are discussing how the rain strikes a teacup, a platter, a spoon. Left outside, they are vulnerable, the bare skin, the touch of water to metal or china--- the tick tick tick---the clicking of a jaw. It happens: you leave them out in the open, under all
- [Receiving an Honorable Mention!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/receiving-an-honorable-mention/) - Great news! My poem, "Domesticity," just received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Western Michigan University Creative Writing Contest, in the graduate level division of poetry. Thank you, Adam Clay, for judging and for your recognition of my poem! It is greatly appreciated; this poem really means a lot to me.
- [Bees & Honey](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/bees-honey/) - It is spring, and what you expected of its beauty has not yet arrived. Things are still a little too dead to wake up & break open. Soon the flowers will act like small, color-blown cups for the insects and the rain. A.R. Ammons steps out into the great open and says, “I am
- [Across the Ravaged Lake](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/across-the-ravaged-lake/) - ---Tanzania The amount of time it takes is unclear, and yet, it happens--- the swan’s wings carve down, down until the body is meeting the water and friction takes over. Then---the hopelessness, the petrification, that suddenly-graceless body is gripped and remolded into ash, sulfur, stone. I imagine how the feathers, at the ends
- [Defining Winter](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/defining-winter/) - It is only cat-like as it enters the cemetery, something skeletal and de-veined as it exits. We spent time removing corn husks and drove down dirt roads. Our first winter together, it was two days into the season before you told me you loved me. Four winters later, I admitted the photographer forced me
- [Domesticity](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/domesticity/) - My second relationship looked something like this: spun from what was left in the kitchen each night, all fish and sinnew. He had the largest hands, butcher-palms, blood under the nails, and his teeth were white scarecrows after too many fights. The salt-blue eyes stared as he forced my head back into the sink
- [A Collection Poem](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-collection-poem/) - First, the front door. A series of pots and pans without a permanent place. The wind, the rain. A childhood photo with a boy in an over-sized suit. Only the eyes are the same. They look at me and say I could have loved him even then. Accountability & stars.
- [Timetable](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/timetable/) - When I was young, I gazed at a tree and knew if I didn’t start climbing, I’d never get another chance. My smaller body was in a red and black dress, white tights that snagged on the branches. By the time the adults took notice, my feet were above their heads, the reaching fingers.
- [Reading Joan Aleshire](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-joan-aleshire/) - TWELVE FAIRY GODMOTHERS all came with gifts to the birth: one with laughter, one with strength, one with luck, one with love, one with grace, one with hope, one with imagination, one with insight, one with health, one with keen senses, one with will, and one--- angry with the others or with my
- [Pointing in Your General Direction](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/pointing-in-your-general-direction/) - is a candlestick, snapped at the base after being dropped from a bag of date-night accessories. We had a terrible anniversary. Two weeks later, we met in the bedroom, and our bodies were sad---sad fingers slipped through sad hair, sad lips touched sad mouths. Next, the room was sad, and the neighbors were sad
- [Gunshots and Fireworks Are Sort Of the Same in the End.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/gunshots-and-fireworks-are-sort-of-the-same-in-the-end/) - ---after Matthew Dickman As I get a little bit older, I reach the beginning of July and begin to pray for a little quiet: Bruce Springsteen and Fleetwood Mac turned down low and all the sausages done with their hissing and pulled off the grill. One evening, I am alone, and when I
- [Reading Frank Stanford](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-frank-stanford/) - THE BASS He jumps up high against the night, rattling his gills and the hooks in his back. The Indian says he is like a goose passing in front of the moon. THE NOCTURNAL SHIPS OF THE PAST There was always a great darkness moving out like a forest of arrows
- [Looking Back: Lessons in Complacency Taken from Frank Stanford and Dean Young](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/looking-back-lessons-in-complacency-taken-from-frank-stanford-and-dean-young/) - THE SINGING KNIVES The dogs woke me up I looked out the window Jimmy ran down the road With the knife in his mouth He was naked And the moon Was a dead man floating down the river He jumped on the Gypsy’s pony He rode through camp I could see the dust
- [Reading Matthew Dickman](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-matthew-dickman/) - GRIEF When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky. You must offer her what’s left of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish you must put aside and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed, her eyes moving from the clock
- [Then Again---](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/then-again/) - The low, chuffing calls of deer in the bog are like a man grinding his teeth, steadily into the face of a megaphone. The call of birds. A conversation, the garble. The suction and pop of a leg pulling up from the bog’s thick mouth. Upon close examination, spiders look like scorpions when climbing
- [Motherhood](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/motherhood/) - One afternoon I mistook a young swan, dipping his head, for a large turtle rolling over and over---water, sun, water, sun---and the sadness returned. My stomach, seeming at a distance, filled. I wonder now if this is how a mother feels when she loses a child, a miscarriage, or when she first abandons the
- [Sarajevo, Chicago](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/sarajevo-chicago/) - At the restaurant, the ceiling tiles were white and sagging, weak-in-the-knees, Casablanca lilies. This was a place that should have taken him back to his childhood. A place for burial, a cremation. They arrived with a variety of meats, d’oeuvres, all the way from Bosnia. I only knew a matter of words: please, thank
- [Hand-Painted Mailbox](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hand-painted-mailbox/) - ---A prose poem One winter, a group of teens went racing down a country road with a baseball bat and left a series of metal carcasses in the snow. One was dark blue with a large crescent moon covering half, little kid hand-shaped stars covering the rest. Its house was dead and empty.
- [Reading Mary Ruefle](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-mary-ruefle/) - WASPS’ NEST The empty, almost weightless, onionated brain. Planet-on-a-branch. The first lantern to glow in space when Wang Bo thought, I’ll look a little closer I’ll lift this flame inside. His footsteps. His panting. His words of announcement: how beautiful, how useful. Not knowing what to say. Not knowing which would please his
- [Two Prose Poems](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/two-prose-poems/) - GUN CONTROL I want the swans back--- the father’s wide beak, the wings spread and beating down into the water, telling the water to stay down, all before leading his wife and two young through the reeds and on to the other side of the Bay. (If I had known, I would have stopped
- [Miscommunication](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/miscommunication/) - ---A Misreading of Robert Creeley’s “For No Clear Reason”* I dreamt last night the fridge was over, that its large, white body shifted, left to right, left to right, on its four feet across
- [The Healer](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-healer/) - One night a group of people sent a woman to my house who wanted to touch everyone. Her skin was dark, the moon’s blue hues on her shoulders. She braided my hair, and all through the night her mouth moved in another language. No sound came from those lips. I tried to understand, tried
- [A Day Reading Robert Creeley](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-day-reading-robert-creeley/) - IN A BOAT SHED I waited too long. I waited for you forever and ever: the changing unchanging restlessness of the signs they didn’t put up or down; the boxes of oranges, rat poisons, barns, a sled with no runners, snow, refreshments, pineapples; the odor of burnt wood, cigarettes neither one of us
- ["Silence, silence...which is in me / like a hill": Lessons to be taken from Robert Creeley](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/silence-silence-which-is-in-me-like-a-hill-lessons-to-be-taken-from-robert-creeley/) - Admittedly, whenever I sit down to read “one of the greats” for the first time, my inner-skeptic finds her way out and asks, “What’s with all the hype?” I ask this question not for the sake of propelling myself forward, or of devaluing late-writers, but for the sake of asking what contemporary writers should
- [KabbaLoom: Reading Lisa Fishman](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/kabbaloom-reading-lisa-fishman/) - Upon first impression, Lisa Fishman’s Flower Cart may appear to be somewhat inaccessible and scattered, due to its intellectual leaps, orientation-variations (horizontal and vertical) and multimedia-feel insertions. However, through further exploration, the collection is, both, extremely intuitive and strategic. Fishman displays a clear understanding and mastery of language and syntax through her use of
- [Horses, Etc.: The Kinesthetic Nature of Marni Ludwig's Pinwheel](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/horses-etc-the-kinesthetic-nature-of-marni-ludwigs-pinwheel/) - Typically when I read a poetry collection that is more surreal in nature, I eventually reach some level of disappointment, simply for the reason that the collection lacks a form of balance between the concrete and the surreal. In Marni Ludwig’s collection, Pinwheel, however, I never reached this level of disappointment. Though the collection
- [Reading Marni Ludwig](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-marni-ludwig/) - AFTER THE GIRL After the girl with the handful of mice and a tiny silver guillotine leaves, we lie down in the dark. You tell me last night you dreamed you wore a beard. The night before you drowned but did not sleep. On the screen behind us citizens of a great island
- [KBAC Poets in Print Series: Tyler Mills & Brynn Saito](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poets-in-print-tyler-mills-and-brynn-saito/) - Tonight, like every other night, I come to the same conclusion: The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, and their Poets in Print series, never disappoint. This evening, beginning at 7pm, the KBAC introduced Tyler Mills and Brynn Saito, both with their first collections of poetry. Admittedly, I had never read work by either of these
- [There is Nothing but Danger Here.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/there-is-nothing-but-danger-here/) - ---A Prose Poem It has been there all the time, but at some point,
- [“We wave to him from underneath / our opened black wings”: Reading Jay Baron Nicorvo](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/we-wave-to-him-from-underneath-our-opened-black-wings-reading-jay-baron-nicorvo/) - To those of you out there who may have forgotten the details, or are currently available, Jay Baron Nicorvo will be reading at Western Michigan University in the Bernhard Center, Rooms 208-209, at 8pm tonight! In preparation for tonight’s festivities, I decided to dedicate part of my day to rereading his first poetry collection,
- [When Dancers Turn to Writing](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/when-dancers-turn-to-writing/) - Tuesday evening, I planned on attending what looked to be an interesting reading. . . but what it turned out to be was an inspirational, uplifting and hilarious multigenre experience. The event was titled “After Dancing: Dancers Turn to Writing,” and for good reason. These two wonderful, strong women were dancers for the
- [On Taking a Year Off](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/on-taking-a-year-off/) - It’s about that time again---the act of road-tripping across a series of states, taking large sums of money for a range of books, getting those books signed by authors, seeing those authors read, attending a diverse set of panels that delve into various levels of meaning and importance. . . This is how I
- [Misty Mornings: inspired by Thoreau's Journal](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/misty-mornings-inspired-by-thoreaus-journal/) - The air is filled with mist, yet a transparent mist, a principle in it you might
- [Project: Reading Thoreau's Journal (2)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/project-reading-thoreaus-journal-2/) - Aug. 28---(an excerpt) Evening.---A new moon visible in the east. I omit the unusual---the hurricanes and earthquakes---and describe the common. This has the greatest charm and is the true theme of poetry. You may have the extraordinary for your province, if you will let me have the ordinary. Give me the obscure life,
- [Project: Reading Thoreau's Journal (1)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/project-reading-thoreaus-journal/) - Over the past two weeks or so, I have been reading Henry David Thoreau's Journal extensively and have been extremely inspired by it. Despite my growing interest in this collection, though, I have found that it is Thoreau's least-well-known work, if not arguably his most extensive and successful. So, for my own inspiration's sake,
- [The Fire of Twenty-Thirteen](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-fire-of-twenty-thirteen/) - It only takes a moment, and then her body burns, the skin lifting away in the shape of leaves---an oak, a willow branch, a maple--- as if she’s known this language for years. She is screaming, she is speaking in tongues, she is a woman lost in dreams. Around here, it is only heat
- [The Separation](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-separation/) - There was a moment when I thought of you, and I longed for water. Two black pitchers laid on the ground in the shadow of what must have been an old well. Their two mouths were crusted with the last snowfall’s ice. Their mouths like two ovals learning how to kiss a forgotten earth.
- [One Day He Asked Me How I Could Believe in God, and the Reply Didn't Come for Years.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/one-day-he-asked-me-how-i-could-believe-in-god-and-the-reply-didnt-come-for-years/) - The first time I dreamed of Him was also the last--- I sat at a long table that seemed to go on forever gold and silver lights that seemed to say Jesus everywhere--- and then He was there, holding a man as if securing him after an early-aged heart attack. The moment I tried
- [Reading Jake Adam York](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-jake-adam-york/) - To mourn the loss of a great poet, I've been reading poems by Jake Adam York. Below, I've included one of my favorites. It's been published online in a variety of places and appears in his collection, Murder Ballads. VIGIL The bike, the handlebars, the fork, spoked wheels still spinning off sun,
- [A Letter to the Candidate](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-letter-to-the-candidate/) - ---in response to the 2012 presidential election It is winter, and you become separated, disconnected, resumed---it is winter, and you become a child. It
- [A Poem About Writing Better Poems](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-poem-about-writing-better-poems/) - The next time you write about a man speaking to an object, consider whether the object should speak back. Particularly if it is an animal. Particularly if it is a red mongoose who has just defeated two King cobras who learned how to dovetail in the dark. Particularly if it is a woman: try
- [Reading e.e.cummings (a found poem)](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-e-e-cummings-a-found-poem/) - In lieu of e.e.cummings' birthday---October 14, 1894---I have been reading his poems and wanted to create a found poem of some of his work. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Birthday, e.e.cummings. You were one of my first poetic loves. a found poem, a lost poem into the strenuous briefness: look, my
- [Neutral Colors](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/neutral-colors/) - ---for Charles Once I had a dream we were all wandering through the dark on a pier, and there was a lone carousel, all
- [On the Outside, There is a Heart---And on the Inside, There is an Old Friend's Funeral.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/on-the-outside-there-is-a-heart-and-on-the-inside-there-is-an-old-friends-funeral/) - "And a man newly dead would really know. And a
- [Miguel Hernández's "Idea of a Poem"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/miguel-hernandezs-idea-of-a-poem/) - MY IDEA OF A POEM What is a poem? A beautiful affected lie. An insinuated truth. Only by insinuating it will a truth not appear a lie. A truth as precious and hidden as anything from a mine. One needs to be a miner of poems to see in its Ethiopias of darkness its
- [The Day My Brother was Immortalized on a Piece of Oversized Canvas](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-day-my-brother-was-immortalized-on-a-piece-of-oversized-canvas/) - ---a poem influenced by Philip Levine In that moment, my brother was beautiful: it was after visiting hours, nurses unaware of the car parked
- [A Favorite Snippet of John Ashbery](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-favorite-snippet-of-john-ashbery/) - from John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand, Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you. * When I was
- [Your Hands, Like Discarded Feathers](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/your-hands-like-discarded-feathers/) - That morning, you told me you were terrified of poetry as a child. You told me stories of vines, stories of the things that continue to remain. I spent the following days imaging the dark circles left in the woods behind your house, looking in. * They were like tall flowers, bruised
- [Apartment-Living](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/apartment-living/) - You turn in your sleep, and it is at times like these when I wish you could wake and listen: I am ill. I know there are times when you lie awake, hearing the sounds of another’s bed, hearing the sounds of children running in the streets after dark. These are rudimentary: the skin
- [Ekphrasis](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/ekphrasis/) - 1. Create for me a river made of stone so that I may look nothing like you. 2. One thousand moons. Rutabagas at slumber. Soft birds. Each of these have something in common: They look nothing like you. 3. A girl runs through an orchard like a fish, all
- [Hypochondriac](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hypochondriac/) - You and your wings have left me paralyzed---the 'skeltered wings hanging like crows' nests, indefinitely, fusing together like salt and ice. And she said: Please, do not call me darling anymore. The sky still carried some of the incense left over from a lunar rain, craters full of something other--- something that
- [Reading Lynn Emanuel](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-lynn-emanuel/) - inside gertrude stein Right now as I am talking to you and as you are being talked to, without letup, it is becoming clear that gertrude stein has hijacked me and that this feeling that you are having now as you read this, that this is what it feels like to be inside gertrude
- [My Love For What Resembles](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-love-for-what-resembles/) - Flutter and burn, you turn almost sideways, glinting like those who lay un-described and silent. Lackadaisical birds. Tell me something other than your two methods of circumference, the legality of chloroform, the two figures lost in the dark on the other side of winter. Tell me once I am lost in the middle of
- [Psychology & Wine](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/psychology-wine/) - (I apologize in advance; this poem needs a lot of work.) Psychology & Wine 1. At first, when she was nervous, the girl peeled the skin from the back of her heels---nibbled her lips, crimson-blue--- until they were nothing but pulled onions, the pale moons surrounded by red clouds. Lunar landscapes. Created in silence. 2.
- [Joseph Conrad's "Advice on Writing a Novel"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/joseph-conrads-advice-on-writing-a-novel/) - I. “I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.” These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate. The words of our municipal rulers have a
- [Early Signs Of---](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/early-signs-of/) - It was on a night like this when I stopped trying to find you. Your body disappeared, and I was left in a sea of white linen and feather-down--- the area around the bed and the main hallway like a thousand corridors. Antelope filled these halls, their eyes turning into many dark stratospheres, and in
- [Poem by Frank Stanford](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-by-frank-stanford/) - I was reading the poetry collection, You, by Frank Stanford today and really liked this poem. I hope you enjoy it. WEARINESS OF MEN My grandmother said when she was young The grass was so wild and high You couldn't see a man on horseback. In the fields she made out Three barns, Dark and
- [Rewrite](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/rewrite/) - I'm reworking "The Nightsky Often Looks Like a Mound of Feathers" and retitled the poem (I may re-use this title in a future poem). Here's the result: A LETTER TO CALICO SKIN 1. Early on, you appeared like a curled robe on the side of a highway, like a young woman dying in the corner
- [Speech Impediment](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/speech-impediment/) - You often says things in which I can say little in return—my growing deficiency—and the sky turns yellow. We lay a blanket in a field in the middle of nowhere and return to find it covered in earth that cannot grow. We lie in this space and stare into a sky filled with clouds that
- [Writing Process](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/writing-process/) - This is one of those poems that is not very good, needs a ton of editing but will not get out of my head. I imagine part of it will be useful, but for now, this is it, in its roughest form. THE NIGHTSKY OFTEN LOOKS LIKE A MOUND OF FEATHERS. 1. Ever since you
- [No Skin Included.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/no-skin-included/) - Break open the branch. Inside-- there is lime and tree foam. Like marrow. The white liquid that illuminates the skin, full of leaves and freshly-plucked strawberries. Like dawn, opening: he captures this about her in a painting, surrounds her with blood oranges, places roses around her face. The girl becomes something like a funeral, the
- [Jim Daniels at IU South Bend](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/jim-daniels-at-iu-south-bend/) - Tonight, Jim Daniels appeared at the IU South Bend English Department Student Writing Awards and performed a reading. Unfortunately for me, I was unable to attend the reading. Call it an example of how a writer must lead a double-life, split between the artistic edge of experiencing poetry and functioning within the "real world" and/or
- [The Silent Film](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-silent-film/) - In this dream, I have lost you, and suddenly my heart has turned and I am dreaming about a man who has died. In his fury, he cut open his hands. I become the girl who can see him, can see the blood and the way it looks like a family of birds, red crows,
- [A Poem--different from my usual work](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-poem-different-from-my-usual-work/) - SPRING MORNING It is without a word that you follow me outside like a lumbering shadow. We reach the sidewalk, our steps matching. Wind tangles in my hair as we pass apartment doorways and windows. It is when we see the shadows of two people making love through an illuminated curtain that we realize I
- [When He Asked Her to Turn Him into a Poem](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/when-he-asked-her-to-turn-him-into-a-poem/) - She removed his shirt and pushed him into the moonlight. He became all silvery skin. And so she painted him—deep black covered portions of his arms, his hands, his face, until finally she moved him out of the moonlight. He disappeared, except for a hand here, a limb there, and also his eyes, the pale
- [Nights that Dreamed Her Open](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/nights-that-dreamed-her-open/) - There was a morning when she opened herself to horses--- it was a sort of release, the wind and soft petals under her toes. She waited out in the field, their bodies lingering off on the horizon. They looked black against the sun, manes twisting, all muscle. She imagined their eyes, like dew and something
- [All Memory](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/all-memory/) - It was late, and the sky had long past burst and cleared into stars when it ran from the trees, like a mass, illuminated into white and fur in the headlights. Its eyes were like two pearls. I watched as it tumbled away into the darkness, that broken filament, and I waited until they came
- [Near the End of It](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/near-the-end-of-it/) - As I move through this evening, I am reminded of you. During the winter which beat my skin raw, we tried to be someone older. We attempted to speak like birds, all sound in the early morning glow, the pink dew and raw strawberries. You became all hands, you like a converging horizon, and I
- [Photo Shoot](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/photo-shoot/) - You stand suspended, the ladder which seems to swim against a white ceiling. I lay in a curve of color—I imagine somewhere, the wind is blowing. You tell me to look deep into the lens, eyes conversing, and I do. Inside the barrel, there are woods. I find a tree, when, in the light, it
- [It Ends With Three.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/it-ends-with-three/) - And the hands begin floating out in the open--- all fingers like predisposed tiger lilies. * In the end, there is water hung over the rafters like long sticks, like limbs, * and there are birds lining the doorway. You sleep in your bed, unaware of the predetermined eyes of the young--- then, you dream
- [This is My Greatest Fear.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/this-is-my-greatest-fear/) - In a dream, you began to open your robe and paused; in that moment your body looked exactly like mine--- it paused and proceeded with cancer.
- [Poem with an Oddly Placed Title](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/poem-with-an-oddly-placed-title/) - Sorry in advance for the title; it just seemed right. A Quiet Suicide 1. The movement was subtle---the break from vine to vineyard, the watching of broken bird eggs, hairline fractures. The young ones, they had eyes like water and baking powder. 2. A field dotted with old corn stalks and dandelions, a sound from
- [As the Sun Rises, The Brother Disappears in the Shape of an Acorn.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/as-the-sun-rises-the-brother-disappears-in-the-shape-of-an-acorn/) - 1. He's sleeping again, and inside he dreams that he cannot eat, cannot sleep--- and then he can't. Not like this. Not in this room labeled C3 on the second floor--- on the kidney side of the hospital. 2. And then, I'm addressing you--- You are lost again, your usual stomach pains. Your body, falling
- [In Midnight Orchards](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/in-midnight-orchards/) - In Midnight Orchards for Dragan, these haikus and lines The sunset falls like gold over water: softly, deliberately, before the white horse envelops the sky. Then, there is the moon--- followed by the apple trees. Your dreams, long and dark ---like seamless flowers---and later, the wind in your hands. My skin converts
- [At Wolf Lake / Just Outside of Prophetstown](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/at-wolf-lake-just-outside-of-prophetstown/) - The sinners don't often come here to learn to write---their skin pale with too little sunlight, the lost pigmentation. They float like lost souls in boats over the water, drifting slowly toward and away from one another until the snow comes--- snowflakes falling like small questions--- will darkness fall like winter here? can't I remember
- [When the Leaf Lifts, It Falls and Leaves Behind a Fossil of Water.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/when-the-leaf-lifts-it-falls-and-leaves-behind-a-fossil-of-water/) - At first, there is nothing but the sound of breaking branches--- until there is an engine, a dusty hearse, a line turning the corner, car after car, the police leading the way onto the Raccoon Lake [main exit], all accompanied by a flag, all too like a man burning a tree for the sake of
- [Hanging From Your Neighbor's Window, A Brass Key Ring](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hanging-from-your-neighbors-window-a-brass-key-ring/) - Your favorite mornings were when you turned off my skin--- my hair became elongated fiber my eyes, melted and frozen, over and over. * It became this soft repetition--- this event--- of cars and medical wire, deer crossing the street with nowhere to go but up and over--- up into the stars, over the neighbor’s
- [The Snowman.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-snowman-2/) - It's winter---and we're walking on a path where there used to be leaves. You point me in the direction of where the car ran off, right there, right behind a series of bushes that look like birds, the skeleton of a path left over beneath the trees. A mailbox marks the place, red with rust
- [The Sensitive Nature of Rain [revised]](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-sensitive-nature-of-rain-revised/) - The gentle faces fall and collect, fall like deer into the field--- over and over like soft moons. * You remember her skin and how it rang with moonlight. And though the moon may never sing, the image made sense--- the way that shine seemed to quantify sound.
- [The Sensitive Nature of Rain](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-sensitive-nature-of-rain/) - The gentle faces fall and collect, fall like deer into the field— over and over like soft moons.
- [Before I Turned Away, the Evidence was Exposed.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/before-i-turned-away-the-evidence-was-exposed/) - The raccoon would not be moved easily, then, its skin too far gone, all fish and sinew, pinned behind the farthest bunker on the field. Children turned around the animal like meat grinders, their faces red with snow, their hearts beating, rotating with the orbit, drunk on the animal’s daze and hiss. Gray eyes, gray
- [The Managing Editor Has Been Recognized!](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-managing-editor-has-been-recognized/) - This past week—Tuesday, October 11—42 Miles Press was mentioned in IU South Bend’s student newspaper, The Preface. In the article written by Maria Hubbard, 42 Miles Press, its publications, the office and our expanding library of resources are discussed to give readers a better picture of the Press as it continues to expand. As a
- [[Metafiction]](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/metafiction/) - If this were a poem, you would be awake by now-- like a ghost a migration of birds. Your body--ejected to the ceiling--would become a pillar for Christ to place his feet. It happened on the morning when in your car, you could not sleep. Your mind, ejected particles. And then the migration. Then the
- [I adore this poem by Carrie Olivia Adams right now.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/i-adore-this-poem-by-carrie-olivia-adams-right-now/) - CARRIE OLIVIA ADAMS A Mystery Story She would begin by predicting the weather. The first clue is snowflakes. She gathers teeth marks. Flesh torn. Hot. Then cold to the touch. No, the detective thinks. Fabric fibers over ice crystals. Fingernails. This one delivered. By hand. By beak. By slow boat. By tip toe. By knocked
- ["And in the Morning, There is Wind."](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/and-in-the-morning-there-is-wind/) - And then she begins to write into her spine – the four of diamonds a strand of hair And then there is a deer crossing her front lawn, looking large, large as though mounting a lily its mouth a pink line carnation petals
- [While You Turn My Mother Into Your Handbag](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/while-you-turn-my-mother-into-your-handbag/) - You trade the sun for sudden moons – the reflections on your shovel transform into soil and otter. In the moment you kneel, speculations rise like glass from your skin. The shine of diamond – crows plant themselves in the place of violets blacken the earth. (That soft break from violet to violent) I learned
- [Carrie Oeding: Reading at 7pm at IU South Bend](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/carrie-oeding-reading-at-7pm-at-iu-south-bend/) - Those Women Are Laughing Sorry Susanna, we’ve already worn the red dress tight, yes, without a slip, once with the zipper broken, to a wedding and to our birthday, where, yes, we ate the cake with our hands. We ate the dress. We wore it as if we had a secret, over and over and
- [The Last Thing He Says Before His Death: "When You Get Home, I'm Sorry."](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-last-thing-he-says-before-his-death-when-you-get-home-im-sorry/) - The bed was wet with spilled lilies – white pouring down into the stem like sickness. You didn’t find a man in the rafters. You didn’t expect a horse - hung like an ornament in the barn next to a water-logged trailer. What you wanted to see was a carousel, filled with dead leaves, skeletal
- [The Girl Leaps into the Field as if to Burst Open like a Cloud](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-girl-leaps-into-the-field-as-if-to-burst-open-like-a-cloud/) - A valley of broken houses – inside a woman who collected rooms – plucked the extensions filled with accessories and moons. (expanding) Surrounded with the shadow of mirrors, she began to unwind her daughter – turned her inside-out pulled her hair through the head of a needle one strand at a time. The daughter watched.
- [Unlike This Bed of Soft Tendrils](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/unlike-this-bed-of-soft-tendrils/) - The first time you heard an ambulance, you stopped dreaming – stopped dreaming of such romantic inversions – like the hum of a whale, the cactus flower you turned into. A mother carries the last basket of apples from the garden and says they belong to you (like ribbon and twine) like music you never
- [Spindled Roses](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/spindled-roses/) - 1. I was awake on the morning the fog mustered up the courage to contact you. It was like moss growing across the door and tapping tree limbs combined. 2. You stopped moving two weeks ago. There are things you should have said, she said— gowns parted against humming machines, hazardous materials. What is the
- [Dreaming, As If It Were Nothing](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/dreaming-as-if-it-were-nothing/) - This reminds me of how clouds look in winter, so like soft scales on the ocean. The bodies park themselves as though in front of a window, looking in – you, I leave among the living with your hair and lungs inverted on a cloud. I assure you, I have done all I could.
- [A Glass Full of Swans](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-glass-full-of-swans/) - The woman waded through the moonlit fields like a horse – deliberately. Her mouth was a pale line in the darkness, like someone searching for a love lost in death. Her bracelets clinked like hooves to cobble. I watched her move over the field like someone sleepwalking into dawn. * Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s “The
- [Homeward](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/homeward/) - 1. And he said, "There is a reason you stopped drawing trees." on the same morning that the hand on the clock stopped turning. 2. You spent that morning opening fields - releasing crows in large billows into the sky. There was no one. There was a scarecrow. 3. I inverted your skin on a
- [Lower Life Forms](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/lower-life-forms/) - There are men who choose to live without trees. You dreamt that scattered wheelbarrows covered the earth like stones, that flowers broke under the wind that dusted the water. You did not believe that your wife’s shadow looked like a tree against the sun – its wavering reflection on the water, its silhouette on her
- [At Confessions](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/at-confessions/) - There comes a time when the trees begin to trade places. A woman spirals through limbs, the nearby depths of a lake – You remember the day when you explained to her how you wanted to wait for a winter wedding – You dug up the charcoal of leftover flowers and leaves, the tree limbs,
- [Reading/"Favoriting" Zoland Poetry #5](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/readingfavoriting-zoland-poetry-5/) - Zoland Poetry 5: An Annual of Poems, Translations & Interviews *** STEPHANIE STRICKLAND burning briar scanning tunnel there is a zombie at the wheel who finds acceptable all risk (his flesh looks like mine) a crinkle monkey in the swamp mind tricky and brisk (his moves feel like mine) headless mannequin draped white print snakeskin
- [Reading New Ohio Review (nor) 8](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-new-ohio-review-nor-8/) - DEAN YOUNG Bell Tower Now that my heart is about ready, who are all those gracile creatures moving smooth as air around me while I rest on my assistant, the stair railing? I’m thankful not to know a one of them and interrupt their neon-darting need for somewhere else to vanish in. I could almost
- [The Façade of Orchard Willows](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-facade-of-orchard-willows/) - There are days when summer and winter seem to reverse – unwind the flowers. You close the door. Knock as though dead limbs and leftover pollen will answer. You wind your way through the orchard as if you were a ghost. Haunt the underside of trees, unwind their roots. You become a memory of God’s
- [Cherry Blossoms](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/cherry-blossoms/) - Sinful. Your lack of poetry - You. Becoming hollow. I see it coming every Wednesday - you become something - like ancient ruins. like peach trees reflecting in your eyes. As though your skin swallowed sunrise and the stars as though you deserved something, as though your hollowness reflected her - broken sunrise.
- [The First Way to Foster Children](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-first-way-to-foster-children/) - I remember how your hands were filled like small wheelbarrows, lacking their legs, lacking days, days filled with poems – * like the one where you find one of your manuscripts in the garbage – you look underneath a box of Krispy Kreme and there is a stack of your poems – in the order
- [The Sound After Thunder](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-sound-after-thunder/) - “So go then,” she said, referring to the way the river was drained of water. Your front porch was filled with wind chimes, filling the corners of the deck, filling your house with hollow sounds. One day your belongings began to disappear. Windows opened – latch-less – let in the low drones around an empty
- [Midnight in Paris](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/midnight-in-paris/) - I just might have to go back and see this again and write a review of it. I wanted nothing more than my typewriter and to stay up to write all night after I saw this.
- ["Kaleidoscopy"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/kaleidoscopy/) - I remember you – the way your body fell like rain into the bed. Sheath after sheath – the smell of the room, the shape of your frame. You disappeared inside the mattress, the fabric turned to water. Your hair flailed like a fan, your fingers were spiders, the lack of iris in the blue
- [The Naked, Walking](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-naked-walking/) - No one ever asked you what sin feels like. It travels to the ends of your hair, like every other poem you have written. [Metafiction.] You are the character that walks in the tide – the sand swallowing your feet, wishing for the strength of the undercurrent. You became my favorite character. You filled a
- [Visiting Rights](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/visiting-rights/) - 1. You, you remember those earlier days when you walked along a more putrid river surrounded by chamomile and violets where the moon hung itself in the trees. The new moon became the funeral you walked into. You dreamt many times. 2. You remember how, once, your legs somersaulted without you, as though filled with
- [Just finished reading William Aberg and Maureen Alsop](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/just-finished-reading-william-aberg-and-maureen-alsop/) - WILLIAM ABERG The Blade (for William Stafford) As a boy, I made a blade of my hand and held it flush with the window of our speeding car. Telephone poles, great windy chestnuts and oaks, tall buildings, and green, bearing slopes-- I leveled them all exactly with my wake. One day, I fear I'll have
- [These Are the Gifts You Abandoned.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/these-are-the-gifts-you-abandoned/) - Your body has become the point where meeting can no longer take place— Your mouth filled with leaves the day you borrowed her dress (covered in small roses) and threw it – as if guided by an invisible line – out over the ocean. You led her to a place where you wept over a
- [Remembering Art Beat 2010](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/remembering-art-beat-2010/) - I'm planning on closing down my other blog, The Ink Traveler, so I can focus on this one and implement some of the more important focal points, such as reviewing and keeping to the plan of writing daily. And then I found this one post on that other blog, and I realized how ready I
- [Of Trenches and Stones](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/of-trenches-and-stones/) - This poem needs some serious work -- Of Trenches and Stones Believing him is the easy part when love begins to taste like blood and water. Metaphor- ically: she wastes away on a cloud of opium and small metallic wings. You can taste the flour in the bread – smell the pecans where there are
- [Reading Diane Seuss](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/reading-diane-seuss/) - Don’t say Paris No one says Paris anymore. There’s no such thing as Paris, no Café de la Paix, no Titian’s Entombment in t he Louvre or Hotel La Sanguine with amaranth petals on the sheets. Don’t say Paris. When you utter the word I take off my long red gloves. I prepare my hands
- [While Christ Was Walking Upside-Down on the Other Side of the Earth](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/while-christ-was-walking-upside-down-on-the-other-side-of-the-earth/) - 1. You were ill that winter. The flowers in your windowsill caught the flu, their red petals turned yellow against the snow. You remember those. You remember the way their scent changed from rose to lavender. 2. And when Christ learned to walk, you weren’t surprised. You thought he was another human being who would
- [Slumber as a Frog at the Bottom of a Lake](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/slumber-as-a-frog-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake/) - I slept in a shape that suggested sitting as though sitting in a chair all day were not enough. You sleep in this chair, too, dreaming of reflected hen houses and sheep that count backwards, dreaming on their heads in a way that suggests cow-tipping cannot take place.
- [The Questions She Deserted](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-questions-she-deserted/) - You used to ask me where I left your glass of red wine. I could have told you the glass was on the side table but instead I told you – Wedding rings become inverted - Spider webs attach themselves to those corners as continued vacancies – Then the fields came to fill the holes
- [My Scattering of Paper Dolls – Those, You Inherited](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/my-scattering-of-paper-dolls-those-you-inherited/) - I know enough to say that I have lived twenty-two times on the eve of my funeral. My lack of pregnancy is what keeps me smaller – the clothes which used to be loose have become transparent with leaves, a globe of birds in the ocean cornering what is left of waves – not the
- [The Morning I Realized My Fascination with Fields](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-morning-i-realized-my-fascination-with-fields-2/) - 1. The field was open like the mouth of a sparrow inside where there are winding halls You vanish into a brand of forget-me-nots and pollen 2. I spent that morning knowing that this was the one I couldn’t accept – inside the pages was a swan still breaking from its shell – and yet,
- [The Day I Forgot It Was Raining](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/when-i-actually-forgot-it-existed/) - My body existential Your hair an uprising of thorns When wind is nothing more than broken tumbleweed the crows stitching the air sewing up the holes in the Ozone layer Your mind is separate Your leaves are burning a house of mirrors that face the earth and deepen your basement where you dream of frogs
- [When Manuscripts Turn To Stones](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/when-manuscripts-turn-to-stones-2/) - I had received five manuscripts entitled “Kaleidoscope” when I decided to buy one and shatter its body, cut the lenses in half – your face still moved and surrounded the ribbons of color, your eyes blushed with red, your mouth tinted blue as though under water. Your arms became disconnected as though you were swimming.
- [A Coal Miner's Butterfly](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/a-coal-miners-butterfly-2/) - I tied the hands of a clock like shoe laces took pictures over and over until the image was exposed in the shape of a heart. I found fingers - in the staggering corn stalks. Two swans gliding through an old factory the S of white necks a soundless compression fracture a time capsule hidden
- [Circus](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/circus-2/) - 1. I cut my thumb open on a knife and it believed it was sleeping - the skin puckered like the mouth of a fish. The blood was like a horse narrowing herself through a fence, through a canal into another city. 2. Tomorrow, she said, tomorrow – pointing at a pair of air balloons
- [Sistine Chapel](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/sistine-chapel/) - One day you took the time and you inverted your children on a stained-glass window. The unusual shapes hung upside-down. Their hair turned white, their eyes transparent--- and wings developed along their backs like scales, stars sprinkled around the moon.
- [Inversion](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/inversion/) - There will come a day when no one--- literally no one--- will carry a Polaroid camera. You walk through a corn field realize the machines have learned to walk. The water turns to ice, turns to mold hung within a tree--- your hair long trimmed with wind, fossilized on a stone.
- ["I have a thing for poetry"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/i-have-a-thing-for-poetry/) - and poets--- You turned at the waist behind the podium and the way your mouth moved suggested kissing as your eyes focused on my shadow. I understood. I know my eyes would have reminded you of winter and the way the leaves curl curl into combs and lanterns that we might have cast out
- [Art Museum](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/art-museum/) - 1. There are still fields where the crops split open into other fields. The crows become a canyon that opens its mouth revealing a dust storm. 2. You walk into a museum and focus on a set of inverted paintings--- a cropping of heads mounted on pivoting sticks that sing.
- [I am not this tree.](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/i-am-not-this-tree-2/) - Where did these bricks come from - perhaps they were trees and olive branch burned in a santuary window. As though to throw off the jack-in-the-box image, the mouth of an auditorium the Keynote is the inversion of a ghost - what do they aspire to? A tree, a lime - burning with seeds -
- [The "colossal wreck"](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-colossal-wreck-2/) - How large must the statue be when buildings are buried like small ships once floating in a sea of sand, flesh-turned -clay figurines walking under the dome that is brushed with sand and wind and grass that touches two amputated legs. * Inspired by "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- [Corn Field](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/corn-field-2/) - 1. A house was parked floating on a vineyard where scarecrows frowned upon a funeral. The mother said, “And this is where you were made –” pointing to the area between her legs. 2. That winter, corn stalks and cactus leaves coexisted. The child pictured a machine fueled by wax and steel, by jars of
- [The Day I Left Candles At His Grave Sight](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/the-day-i-left-candles-at-his-grave-sight-2/) - I think of him every year on my birthday – He died of a stomach ache – I remember how I wrote poems and plastered them on the walls as though they might accumulate into a thirteen-year-old boy. I imagine how his eyes would be replaced with small worlds, his hands holding desert sand and
- [Stones Are More Easily Thrown Backwards](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/hello-world-2/) - Corpses are simpler to identify in the spring. As horses as glass, with broken knees fractures of teeth what little ivy they have eaten that remains in their digestion in the grass in the weeds of the mirrors of horses of confetti of coffins.

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- [he said I wrote about death](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tag/he-said-i-wrote-about-death/)
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- [Kim Dower's he said I wrote about death](https://mckenzielynntozan.com/tag/kim-dowers-he-said-i-wrote-about-death/)
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