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Erica Funkhouser

Erica Funkhouser’s most recent book of poetry, Post & Rail (2018), was published by Lost Horse Press. She teaches poetry writing at MIT and lives in Essex, Massachusetts.

Food

Fall 2023

Sweet Potato

By Erica Funkhouser

Evening doesn’t touch the green pear or the nested shallots. You are the island it selects in this westward- leaning kitchen, where happiness can look so plain I forget to […]