Traci Brimhall's newest book, Love Prodigal, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2024. She is also the author of: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, Orion, New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She's received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Parks Service. Brimhall lives in Manhattan, KS and serves as the current Poet Laureate of Kansas. This poem is written after Jenny Molberg.

Other poems by Traci Brimhall in Verse Daily:
November 27, 2020:   "Matrophobia" "My friend says if I'm afraid of becoming my mother..."
December 4, 2017:   "Saudade" by "Each time I start, the explorers and tyrants..."
June 27, 2013:   "The Watchtower" "You could guard the city if you could bear..."
December 3, 2010:   "Aubade with a Broken Neck" "The first night you don't come home..."

Books by Traci Brimhall:

Other poems on the web by Traci Brimhall:
Five poems
Six poems
Two poems
Two poems
"I Would Do Anything for Love, But I Won't"
"Vive, Vive"
Two poems
"Lullaby With Almost All the Answers"
"Letter to America"
Three poems
Four poems
"Family Portrait as Lullaby"
"Will & Testament"
"Oh Wonder"
Five poems
Two poems
"Ars Poetica"
"Aubade as Fuel"
"Aubade in Which the Bats Tried to Warn Me"
"You Said the Lambs Were Ready"
Three poems

Traci Brimhall's Website.

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