Hannah VanderHart lives in Durham, North Carolina, and recently finished her doctorate at Duke University. She has poetry and reviews published in the Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Greensboro Review, McNeese Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, American Poetry Review, Indianapolis Review, and storySouth. Her chapbook, What Pecan Light, is forthcoming from Bull City Press; she is the reviews editor at EcoTheo Review.
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Poem Beginning with a Line from Claudia Rankine
Mostly I resist the flooding — except for Tuesday, when it crept up my shoulder and neck. The doctor prescribed Valium and prednisone. My sister drove me. It is worse now […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Love as a Succession of Absences
Thoreau notes not only the purple woodbine berries, his snapping turtle trailing its yolk sac, but what he has not seen — the bobolinks for ten days, the blackbirds since August 28. […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Locusts or Complaint as Protest
The cicadas are so loud and large tonight I call them locusts, hear them through the windows as they sing a cadence to evening. One flew in front of me […]