All gone: the geese, the ducks, the great grays. It has gotten quiet here. Dry and quiet. The inner once-upon-a-time grew tired. Tiredness kept growing, lugging all that expectation every which way in late summer of the mind. […]
Wendell Hawken
A Washington DC native, Wendell Hawken (she/her) came to poetry late in life and earned her MFA in Poetry at the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers, decades after her BA degree. Her publications include three chapbooks and five full collections: The Luck of Being (2008), White Bird (2017) a sequence about her husband’s battle with cancer, Stride for Stride: A Country Life (2020), After Ward (2022), and All About (January 2023). Hawken lives on a grass farm in the northern Shenandoah Valley where the first meaning of AI is Artificial Insemination. Two dogs keep her company.