Averill Curdy is the author of Song & Error (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004). Her recent work has appeared in The Yale Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University.
Far Corners Folio
Winter 2025
Still Life
I’ve read the accident report—It started like that first stitch in a sweaternibbled by wool moths’ invisible larvae (worms,tubes of thoughtless digestion)a hole hardly large enoughfor my finger to make […]
Poetry
Winter 2007
When I Was Beautiful
I was forgiven my raucous laughter. Wedding guests feasting like wasps on soft-skinned fruits and sweetened wines, even as a noise more appallingly intimate than thunder shocks some foreign air […]