Traci Brimhall is the author of Saudade (Copper Canyon, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
Pastoral without Fairies in the Hawthorn
I am too near to it, even here, even in the headache of bees in the hedgerows banishing the long dark of your lungs, the ugly magenta of your afflicted […]
Poetry
Winter 2013
To Survive the Revolution
I, too, love the devil. He comes to my bed all wrath and blessing and wearing my husband's beard, whispers, Tell me who you suspect. He fools me the same […]