“April/Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay April: pomegranate seeds nestle in a fistful of membranes, wait to be plucked before they rot. Life, I whisper to myself: stay awake. Under my nails the gravedigger’s spade is loosed from earth’s placeholder as the throats of hyacinths open. My brother and […]
Susan Michele Coronel
Susan Michele Coronel lives in New York City. Her poems have appeared in publications including Spillway 29, TAB Journal, The Inflectionist Review, Gyroscope Review, Prometheus Dreaming, and One Art. In 2021 one of her poems was runner-up for the Beacon Street Poetry Prize, and another was a finalist in the Millennium Writing Awards. In the same year, she received a Pushcart nomination. Her first full-length manuscript was a finalist for Harbor Editions' Laureate Prize.