The first time I went to a slumber party was the first time I tried to tell a joke. I’d heard it at school. I didn’t get it, but I laughed. I didn’t want to seem stupid. This joke was on my mind: “How can you tell if you’re in Mexico?” The twins ran to […]
Katie Manning
Katie Manning is the founding editor in chief of Whale Road Review and an associate professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. She is the author of Tasty Other, which won the 2016 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and four chapbooks, including The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman. Her poems have appeared in december, New Letters, Poet Lore,andVerse Daily, among others. You can find her online at www.katiemanningpoet.com.