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Sept/Oct 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 5 |

Three Poems

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Rochelle Hurt is the author of two books of poetry: In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014). She lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at Slippery Rock University.

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