When we buried you, I didn’t know Jews don’t do clothing after death, or display bodies without breath. You were buried without your glasses. Without shoes. Those clothes are for the living, to guard us from exposure. // We weren’t dressed for rain; it slashed us through the sides of the over-grave tent, the darkness […]
Elizabeth Galoozis
Elizabeth Galoozis’s debut full-length collection, Law of the Letter, won the Hillary Gravendyk Prize from the Inlandia Institute and will come out in 2025. Her poems have appeared in Air/Light, Pidgeonholes, RHINO, Witness, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere. She serves as a reader for The Maine Review and Abandon Journal, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and for Best of the Net. Elizabeth was selected by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP's Writer to Writer Program in 2022. She works as a librarian and lives in southern California. Elizabeth can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @thisamericanliz, and at her website https://elizabethgaloozis.wordpress.com/.