Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed (Persea, 2015), Approaching Ice (Persea, 2010), Interpretive Work (Arktoi/Red Hen, 2008), and the forthcoming Toward Antarctica (Boreal/Red Hen, 2019). Her awards include a Stegner Fellowship and the Audre Lorde Prize. Founder and editor in chief of Broadsided Press, she lives on Cape Cod, works as a naturalist locally, as well as on expedition ships around the globe, and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.com.
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Permeable
— after Leah Wong, from Cape Cod Below us: water (fresh lens). And below that: a different water (salt soused). This youngest end of a glacier-spat spit, this outwash plain, grains […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
When One Known to You Dies, the Rearranging of Space and Time Begins
— for Ladders, 2019 (Balaenoptera physalus) A rib (I know whose) in the harbor under waves. How heavy would it be, hefted? Low tide will bare it, will allow pickers to […]
Jan/Feb 2019
First Walk on Sea Ice
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. Weeks watching the bow cut through what’s weak enough for not-quite-breaker us (hull Lloyd’s Register Ice Class notation 1A). Captain’s an old hand […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
The Fossil Whale
Northbound Drake. Two sea days. Restless hum of homeward restuffing (guests), reset and gear up for the next (us). Lecture. Lecture. Boot & gear return. In secret, when roommate’s busy […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
Turnaround Day
Farewell. In sun, rain, sun the staff lines out: gangway base to bus. Metal domed treads bounce under travel-day shoes descending, departing. Roller-bags (awkward) carried by stewards. We shake hands, […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
The Blinds Must Be Closed by Dusk
In for the night. Porthole a raven’s eye glinting back the lit lamp. Forgot before dinner to shade it. From bird’s eye, outside, this glass disc I look to & […]
Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed (Persea, 2015), Approaching Ice (Persea, 2010), Interpretive Work (Arktoi/Red Hen, 2008), and the forthcoming Toward Antarctica (Boreal/Red Hen, 2019). […]