Susan Hahn has published nine books of poetry, two produced plays and a novel. She was the inaugural Writer-in Residence at the Hemingway Foundation in 2013-2014. She has just completed a new fiction manuscript and her new website, www.susanhahnauthor.com, went online last week.
Fiction
Winter 2008
The Lovers
from The Four Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter Each time before I leave I comb Cecilia’s hair. She sits in front of the computer and surfs the Internet for life’s lighter […]
Poetry
Spring 2007
The Bells
I All night I heard the clack of deer hooves tied to a stick and someone beating stretched skin over a hollow, and hoped the sounds would appease the gods, […]
Fiction
Summer 2005
Yom Kippur Night Dance
I don’t know if Ethel is alive or dead. If she’s alive, she’d probably tell you that I’m killing her. If she’s dead and I knew it to be true, […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Pity the Self— Middle-Aged
Lying in the body is the self, lying to everyone that it’s great—bloatedinsomniac homunculus—rolling in the ruins of the layered skin and spin of fat, sneaking tidbits at night from […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Guardian
In a brush of fine plumes,beyond the edge of the sun,against that disk, there exists intense ribbons of flame that look like the ones you wound into the tips of […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Pinched Nerve
I kept reaching for the "sacred chakra" on top of my head. I'd flex my wrist, my fingers nipping a sore hair and I'd yank it out of its soft […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
False Spring
It comes too early this late winter, before the ice storms are over, too soon I take off my heavy clothes—toss them onto the patchy grass where the Shasta Daisy-Snow […]
Poetry
Winter 1991
Susan Hahn
In the ambulance between the quickdecisions made on the two-wayradio and the moans of the man inchesfrom the muddied floor, whose clothesthe paramedics tore off,they kept asking me who I […]