We like it a little gritty, a food that stands up for itself, a food that will lie down for the butter or whatever else comes off your knife. This shallow altar and you the god to whom the offering. Used to be bread on a fork before GE got involved. Used to be something […]
Susan Grimm
Susan Grimm has been published in Sugar House Review, The Cincinnati Review, Phoebe, and Field. Her chapbook Almost Home was published in 1997. In 2004, BkMk Press published Lake Erie Blue, a full-length collection. In 2010, she won the inaugural Copper Nickel Poetry Prize. In 2011, she won the Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize and her chapbook Roughed Up by the Sun’s Mothering Tongue was published. In 2022, she received her third Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
As Early as I Can
Standing in front of the closet, their twin beds shaggy as two dogs. Dark wood and dark shoes. Working on abundance. They’ve assembled this room from air, each piece conceived and floated down, hooks for the things to come. The silence of the room allowing everything to be. The walls are papered with […]