Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four collections of poems, including Oh You Robot Saints! (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021) and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry, 2012), a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Frank’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.
Extinction
Summer 2024
Interludes: Local Poem
Everyone has gathered by the side of the road.Picking up garbage is a kind of penanceoffered by the local church.I’m driving past the crowd, rememberingwhen the main road of town […]
Extinction
Summer 2024
Interludes: Distance
Roadblocks — there is always something dead around the curve.You saw a dead rabbit, a dead deer, a beaver there, or was it a badger,a groundhog, or what you called a woodchuck.At […]
May/June 2020
Epithalamion Aubade
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. for J and J Wait, it is morning. The birds forgive the night. Up above them the highest branches try to reach into […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
A Field Guide to Mythological Botany
And yet love’s own death can make beauty, too, a slain Adonis’s blood transformed into this field of red anemones. Hyacinth’s blood blooming into larkspur. Demeter’s mortal love, Mekon, memoralized […]
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Rebecca Morgan Frank ’s fourth collection of poems, Oh You Robot Saints!, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2021. She is the author of three previous collections of […]