Novena or Never
An entire flock of Italian widows in black curtains prays for me daily. The lambs in the butcher...
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Mary Biddinger
Mary Biddinger’s most recent poetry collection is O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2013). She is also co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). Her poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Sou’wester, among others. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron, where she edits the Akron Series in Poetry and Barn Owl Review.
Mary Biddinger’s most recent poetry collection is O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, 2013). She is also co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). Her poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Sou’wester, among others. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron, where she edits the Akron Series in Poetry and Barn Owl Review.
Posts by Mary Biddinger
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Love Song for the Bricks and Lakes of the Midwest
A Poetics of Place There was no fire, but two men cranked open the hydrant and began spraying down...
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Grape Soda and Gin
Perhaps I needed a separate cart for my hair, or anything else crouched on my back. My...
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Revitalization Yields Questionable Results
Nothing was available downtown. We just ate our city bread, played another game of pin the...
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