Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere.
Poetry
Winter 2023
Helen of Troy on the Affair
i thought the elm would croak if we kept burying any more of the kid’s dead fish in the roots, orange cyanide from the fair, lived long enough for me […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
Helen of Troy in February
do i love him? who, the big cheese? enough to be stood here in this walgreens with his gut pills in my purse and the baby slung on my chest, […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
Helen of Troy Avoids Her School Reunion
A golden shovel from The Iliad, Book 6, lines 408–9, translated by Robert Fagles you start off all bowl-cut tube-sock schoolhouse rock and end up a bitch, and i’ve never […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
Helen of Troy Calls Her Sister
cly, you remember when it was us and the boys and mom and dad and we all drove up to chincoteague for the summer and the car just —collapsed— —just […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
Helen of Troy Goes Ice Fishing
The Kenyon Review · “Helen of Troy Goes Ice Fishing” by Maria Zoccola he won’t leave me aloneanymore. therefore the boots,therefore the coat, the shackpenning two. his handson the saw, […]