Molly Bashaw
Molly Bashaw grew up on small farms in New England and Upstate New York, and currently lives in Würzburg, Germany, with her husband and daughter. Her debut collection of poems is The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It.
The Children's Wing
Other parents see our little girl running up and down the hall, or performing a dance in the playroom, or climbing onto a stool to get the Funny Bunny game from the closet, and they ask why we are here. I have told the story so many times to so many different doctors that I’m beginning to wonder if I’m keeping the details straight. Was it four in the morning or six? What woke us—the trembling and shaking, or the lack of breathing, or the choking sounds?
December 2025Noses
It was never / in the news / or on Twitter / or Facebook or / Instagram / that on October / twenty-third, / two thousand / eighteen, at six-thirty PM
February 2021What To Expect
Try to avoid symbolism and metaphors, and leave fate out of it, too. Fate was not preparing you for this loss when you were an eight-year-old farm girl and held that stillborn piglet for hours in the barn.
November 2019Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
SEND US A LETTER