For more than a decade I’ve submitted and (far longer than that) dreamed of one day seeing my work in this legendary journal. Sinking in as I hold my contributor’s copy now—my poem, “How to Hold Water,” appears in the latest issue of The Kenyon Review.
A lot of my new manuscript attempts to unearth language for the unsayable, excavates what language evades, where it mistranslates, fails, or, sometimes, how it might reframe or create something new where it falters.
This poem took years to emerge. It’s profound how my children were saving me before they were even conceived, reaching from the beyond to offer the hope of what we’d one day share.
It’s so special to appear alongside absolute legends and friends like Victoria Chang, Julia Kolchinsky, Meghann Plunkett, Maya C. Popa, Patrick Rosal, Ross White, and so many others.
My immense gratitude to Nicole Terez Dutton, Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Nayt Rundquist, Danilo John Thomas, Elizabeth Wagner, Sara Carminati, Michael Coppola, Clair Oleson, & the entire rest of the KR team. I cannot say thank you enough for your generosity and care.
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