Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections Circles Where the Head Should Be (University of North Texas Press, 2011), which won the Vassar Miller Prize, and The Wynona Stone Poems (Persea Books, 2015), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award. Her new work has appeared in Yale Review, Nation, Crazyhorse, and other magazines. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mar/Apr 2019
Flyover Country
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. Between Memphis and Bristol Turtletown Cottontown Reagantown Trade Pigeon Forge Coalfield Hurricane Gray Huntersville Fisherville Manlyville Guys Static Gentry Difficult Bride Shackle Island Bone Cave Pioneer Swift Wartrace Nixon Ransom Stand Gift Barren Plain Nameless Cherokee Pope Campaign White House Purdy New Hope Bugscuffle Speedwell Tazewell Yell Brick Church Hanging Limb Burnt […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2019
43 Sonnet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: 1. autonomy 2. elective howl 3. showed teeth 4. used the veto 5. with hello 6. a wet economy 7. […]
Poetry
Winter 2014
Via Negativa
There weren’t three foxes frozen in the street. Three seemed significant; I rounded up. So when I say, We saw three foxes, blue against the ice, I mean the one […]
Poetry
Winter 2014
Welcome to Pleasant Bluff
It’s not unpleasant here. The chicken plants and car plants grow like plants. Here, all the spersists in yards still plugging past elections and latticed propane tanks. Here, names (like […]
Nov/Dec 2018
Jocks
The back row in American History, already wearing away uniforms under our warm-ups, popping purple gum, some of us in lipstick stolen from our mothers, others mistaken for our younger […]
Caki Wilkinson
Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections Circles Where the Head Should Be (University of North Texas Press, 2011), which won the Vassar Miller Prize, and The Wynona […]