At the Spanish carapace, steel cross where Coronado forded the Arkansas in Kansas, I find a box turtle, name him after the conquistador, bring him further west and across the state line to Camp Amache in Colorado. Coronado is indifferent to the marker that reads, “On this site the Amache Indians defeated the Holly Wildcats […]
Kyle Laws
Kyle Laws is based out of the Arts Alliance Studios, in Pueblo, Colorado, where she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. Her collections include Ride the Pink Horse (Stubborn Mule Press), Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing), and So Bright to Blind (Five Oaks Press). She has received six Pushcart Prize nominations, and her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. She is a resident poet at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the publisher at Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.