Oh, how overdone/I am, swamp-logged,/blue-lipped. Poets/invoke my pickled virginity….
Amanda Williamsen has recently relocated to Bainbridge Island, Washington, where she plans to write a poem for every day that it rains, and maybe for some sunny days, too. She is lately of Cupertino, CA, where she served briefly as that city’s Poet Laureate, and she’s a native of Ohio, where she grew up along the Maumee River. Her favorite activities include canoeing, gardening with her family, taking cat naps next to a cat, and purchasing fireworks at roadside stands with the intent to drive them over state lines. She has taught writing and literature at secondary schools and universities, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Baltimore Review, New Ohio Review, Midwestern Gothic, and The Fabulist. She earned her B.A. at Wittenberg University and her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.
the night is large tonight ants mistake our legs for old fallen branches & simply crawl without violence I tell you that a poem is a gasp of words like my breath on your cheek & that everything before you has been a febrile …
Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY, her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, and most recently in the journals Queen Mob’s Tea House and Meniscus. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Visit her at www.christinamrau.com
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