Ample make this bed, / Make this bed with awe— —Emily Dickinson Emergencies are common things. Today the cat brought home a tufted titmouse with seed-black eyes, breast skin stripped, heart pulsing, body bare as a tongue. My lover swabs the gore with Q-tips and […]
Karen Kilcup
Farm girl, rock climber, and professor, Karen Kilcup feels fortunate to be getting old. Her book The Art of Restoration received the 2021 Winter Goose Poetry Prize, and Red Appetite received the 2022 Helen Kay Poetry Chapbook Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has also published the chapbook Black Nebula and has a forthcoming full-length collection, Feathers and Wedges.