barren January births red camellia buds. In winter’s bloodless womb, hope takes root, blooms.
Claire Massey
Claire Massey is the author of Driver Side Window: Poems & Prose. A 2023 Pushcart Prize and Letter Review Prize nominee, her work has twice won awards from the National Soul-Making Keats Competition. Among others, her poems have appeared in Snapdragon Journal of Art and Healing, Lucky Jefferson, Panoply, POEM, The Listening Anthology, Raven's Perch and The Avalon Literary Review. She is poetry editor for the quarterly print magazine, The Pen Woman and a selection editor for The Emerald Coast Review. Claire teaches creative writing through the Center for Lifelong Learning, a continuing education provider.