Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland and is currently a PhD student in creative writing at Florida State University.
Poetry
Spring 2012
Little Testament
My aunt swears Santa Rosalia died alone and chaste in a cave on Mt. Pellegrino, that this is why the water fizzles like a forgotten bride. She swears Santa Rosalia's […]
Poetry
Spring 2012
Initiation #5: Lorca
He is standing at the foot of my bed with an insanely tragic smile and a syringe full of lead. The injection makes me feel phenomenological—where am I in the […]
Fall 2009
On Anna Journeys If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
University of Georgia Press, 2009, 90 pages Reading through a recent batch of first poetry collections, I find myself returning again and again to Anna Journey’s If Birds Gather Your […]