Elizabeth Poliner
Elizabeth Poliner’s books include What You Know in Your Hands and As Close to Us as Breathing. She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative-writing programs at Hollins University, and her desk is a happy mess. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia.
What Was Astonishing
What was astonishing / was that after a summer of running around the yard / and dragging our rubber dinghy a mile to the lake and rowing / and doing backflips off the dinghy and bicycling around the lake
October 2019Climate Change
That the sun would burn out — / even a million years from now — / was the worst news of my childhood.
August 2019Walking At Night
Sometimes the horses grazing / in the nearby pastures come to the fence / and we talk. Or I do, and they seem to listen.
February 2019Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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