by Mary Biddinger | Jun 1, 2015
The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems by Olena Kalytiak Davis Copper Canyon Press. 2014. 110 pages When a new poetry collection by Olena Kalytiak Davis drops, we expect a revolution. The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems is no exception. In fact, this may be...
by Mary Biddinger | Mar 17, 2015
Until twenty I was just another hairnet, my hands part of the great machinery like a congress of sparrows, a dynamo powered by gossip and wintergreen. Every bearing was sticky as an old lip. Many of the ladies on the lifetime plan considered me inferior, gawked evil...
by Mary Biddinger | Sep 16, 2014
Human Resources Are Limited I was dancing at a club called The Downtrodden Pony, but not for the money. I had green glitter and pink. The walls seethed with carpet, cages all wire like an immigration checkpoint. My arms resembled a tiger attack, a ruptured...