Chet’la Sebree is the author of Mistress, forthcoming from New Issues Press in fall 2019. She was the 2014–16 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry and has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and the Richard H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, and Gulf Coast, among other journals.
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2019
Nightingale of America
for Sally Hemings We both traveled an ocean, were transformed, blossom become nightingale. Homesick — singing songs of transatlantic lamentation from Parisian streets to le Dolomiti. In nature, we are small brown […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2018
Dispatch from the Dark Continent
It’s complicated to like my hair pulled, to enjoy having a man’s member surrendered to the will of my teeth, the clench of my mandible. You have to be twice, […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2018
Ab Hinc
I am misshapen bottom and bouncing bosom, flat-footed, plump thighs, and long torso stretched over plain of organs. I am raspy-voiced rumbling words like synecdotal, can taste ruin in a […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2018
Rewriting
Only in fairy tales is disaster averted. —Shara McCallum A girl child is born. She is brown. She reads a book. She kisses her first boy. He calls her snow; […]
Chet’la Sebree
Chet’la Sebree is the author of Mistress, forthcoming from New Issues Press in fall 2019. She was the 2014–16 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry and has […]