Allison Hutchcraft’s poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte.
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Seeds, or the Collapsed Bodies
Seeds, or the collapsed bodies of rotting fruit, unearthed bulb or root? Did you forage or sleep in the mornings—oh Dodo, what did you eat, were your days not so […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Out the Birds, Out
the stones. Out all things that can fly or be thrown. But you—your woody throat, your knotted toes. Did you know where to go? Did your world swing high, then […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Swampland. Bog. Mare aux Songes. “Sea of Dreams”
Allison Hutchcraft From So Legged and Footed Swampland. Bog. Mare aux Songes. “Sea of Dreams” but the translation slips. I think a song to sing before the singing’s done, a […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
So Legged, So Footed, and Who’s Left to Care?
So legged, so footed, and who’s left to care? So your days bottomed out, so your luck stuttered then stopped. So here a foot, a pinioned wing, so ankle, thigh, […]
Poetry
Summer 2014
Oh, Dodo. You Can’t
From So Legged and Footed Oh, Dodo. You can’t do what others do. You’re caught up in a wild bulb of a beak— there are sunsets tied to your dum-dum […]
Poetry
Summer 2014
You, Again
From So Legged and Footed You, again, all sea-brain and moon-feet— your plush wide awake with cities of fleas. Did I step out of your mouth, or did you step […]
Poetry
Summer 2014
Dodo, Duodo, Sluggard
From So Legged and Footed Dodo, duodo, sluggard. Fat-arse. Knot-bum. Fool. But if dodo, dodar, dodé is to falter, then I’m fowl- feathered, grief-spent, spurned. Who wouldn’t think the world […]
Allison Hutchcraft
Allison Hutchcraft’s poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the University of North […]