Posts tagged Poetry

6 images of a whale breaching and summering, arranged chronologically in a grid

Quarantine Academy—Dear Lovely Students:

in Poetry on March 11, 2021 April 21, 2025

A mash up of 90-plus letters to my students in emails and a daily blog during COVID-19 school closures Well, this is it, it is Tuesday, and we are not going to school. This is…

image of split rail fence crossing meadow with forest in the background

Two Poems

in Poetry on March 4, 2021 April 21, 2025

Fences We built fences along the spine of the Blue Ridge, bore through the shale deposits like a fist invading the sovereignty of someone’s nose. We sweated through our heat-faded shirts, turned tawny and blistered…

image from 1907 of ice cave in a glacier

Three Poems

in Poetry on February 25, 2021 April 21, 2025

Ice Caves I can’t hike the Cascades without thinking the worst, be it rockslide or heatstroke, or cougar springing out of the ferns and devil’s club. Day of fun ruined. My dad carries a Glock…

three images of mike the headless chicken viewed through blue, yellow, and green filters

Two Poems

in Poetry on February 18, 2021 April 21, 2025

This Strange Continent Let’s write of our grandmothers. Mamaw always made biscuits. Her rings hung around her thin fingers like a rattle. With these hands that drove a munitions truck during the war, that beat…

Cover of book featuring a painting of a woman with her back turned in front of colorful fan-like abstract designs

“What Our Mothers Prepare For Us”: A Review of Jihyun Yun’s Some Are Always Hungry

in Interviews/Reviews on January 7, 2021 April 21, 2025

In her debut collection, Some Are Always Hungry, Jihyun Yun explores a sense of longing and belonging in a constant state of flux—through experiences that are specific to being a Korean-American, immigrant woman. Yun’s speaker…