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Radha Marcum

Radha Marcum is the recipient of the Washington Prize for Pine Soot Tendon Bone (The Word Works, 2024) and author of Bloodline (3: A Taos Press, 2017), winner of the New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for Poetry. Also an award-winning prose writer on health and the environment, Marcum has contributed to American Rivers, Outside, and the publications of the Wilderness Society. Her poetry appears in Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.

Poetry

Current Issue

3 a.m.

By Radha Marcum

The Kenyon Review · “3 a.m.” by Radha Marcum For DWM The logic-illogic of this hour : gustsmaking the eaves moan like lambs : likevoice-box toys turned over : bleatingair […]

Poetry

Current Issue

Honey Bees of the Exclusion Zone

By Radha Marcum

The Kenyon Review · “Honey Bees of the Exclusion Zone” by Radha Marcum In the shadows of Soviet statues, honey-making bees thrive. — Richard Collett, “Inside Belarus’ Nature Reserve in the Shadow […]