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Thea Brown

Thea Brown is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press, 2023). Her recent and forthcoming poems can be found in Bennington Review; Coma; the tiny; Action, Spectacle; River Styx; and elsewhere. Brown lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at the George Washington University.

Poetry

Current Issue

It’s the Moon, Girl

By Thea Brown

I now recognize me and you more rudely in stories,Left of freckle, resignation of sunburn to brims.Tangerine pool city bunting flutters over blue wadingAnd spray. Lawn flickers. You too. Cool […]

Poetry

Current Issue

Federal Holiday

By Thea Brown

Love unruly, I dream we’re fightingAn old argument, undergroundBowling alley, sea lions behindChain-link fence, hurt feelings.I wake to you rolled on my sideOf the bed in sleep and I shove,Despair, […]