Erin Adair-Hodges is the winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Let’s All Die Happy (University of Pittsburgh, 2017). She is currently a visiting assistant professor of poetry at the University of Central Missouri where she is the poetry editor of Pleiades.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
I Am Twenty-One
and my roommate is a man so beautiful he is not expectedto say anything true. We sleep separated by the suggestion of a door. He is so closeI hear his […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
Portrait of the Mother: 1985
First there was the word and the word was OK. OK the apartment’s rented floor, new child laid over eyelashes and skin’s salt on shag. OK the sleeplessness; OK the mash-mouthed […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
In the Black Forest
Even the birds, stained black by the thumb of morning. If not love, then at least a thing that is not love’s undoing, that is not a lung with nothing […]