Laurie Kutchins is the author of three books of poems: Slope of the Child Everlasting (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007), The Night Path (BOA Editions), and Between Towns (Texas Tech University Press). Her poems have appeared widely in anthologies and periodicals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, Orion, Georgia Review, Southern Review, West Branch, and other places.
Sept/Oct 2021
The Ward Is the World
1 The chair deserves more time since I spend so much time here. Still damp from a quick wipe, it smells of antibacterial cleanser when I sit down. The arm […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
September First
The sky turned over sometime in the night. While it happened I slept under a quilt of geese. My throat felt their beaks utter a parched good-bye to the dulled […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Think
I will never understand what made my father think of it, what made him think it would work, this punishment he pushed so deep into my brother, over and over—his […]
September First
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Summer/Fall 1997, Vol. XIX, No. 3-4 The sky turned over sometime in the night. While it happened I slept under a quilt of geese. […]