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Karin Gottshall

Karin Gottshall’s most recent book is The River Won’t Hold You (Ohio State University Press, 2014). Recent poems appear in Colorado Review and FIELD. She lives in Vermont and teaches at Middlebury College.

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2018

Origin Story

By Karin Gottshall

Lake Michigan dreamed me, I think, in the winter of 1969, its long currents combing shipwrecks and where was my mama, then? (She was wearing a red muumuu.) And where […]