Weekend Poetry Plan
2 things worth your Saturday afternoon
Read
https://bainbridgeisland.press/products/rabbit-days
Abigail Cain’s Rabbit Days is sixteen poems about girlhood — not the tidy kind, but the kind that lives in textures: chocolate melting on Palm Sunday, crawdads over a fire, a girl at the bus stop who imagines she is made of clay. Cain moves through memory the way memory actually moves, sideways and physical, with the body knowing things the mind has already filed under pseudomemory. It’s a quiet book, and an unsettling one, and it will stay with you the way pavement does — holding the shape of what passed over it long after the thing itself is gone.
Rabbit Days is available now at Bainbridge Island Press.
Submit
https://bainbridgeislandpress.submittable.com/submit/344760/poetics-grain
The POETICS call for submissions on the theme of Grain closes this Monday, March 30th.
We’re looking for poems that sit with grain in all its registers: the rice rinsed three times, the communion wafer on a seven-year-old’s tongue, the wheat fields you drove past and never stopped to photograph. Ordinary and sacred, literal and metaphorical, nourishing and withheld. If you have a poem that belongs here, now is the time. Submissions are open through Submittable.
Enjoy the weekend.