My zinnias are bursts of radiance bolts of joy magenta and orange and sunlight they never failed me all summer when I lived in the beige and pain of rehab they kept alive in the big ignored pot on the driveway thank you zinnias thank you for giving me so […]
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth is Mississippi Poet Laureate 2025-2029. She has published eight books of poems, most recently Paradise Is Jagged (Terrapin Books, 2023). With Laura-Gray Street, she coedited Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2025), which updates the earlier, seminal Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2013, 2020) with poems written and/or published since 2010 by poets who are not in the first volume. Ann has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Storyknife, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, and elsewhere. In 2023 she received the Mississippi Arts Commission Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry. She is retired from the University of Mississippi, where she taught in the MFA program and directed the Interdisciplincary Minor in Environmental Studies.
‘Tis a Consummation
When my kids were tiny, all they wanted was to hang on me. Probably my mom felt bereft when she came to visit, when after the first thrill of her presence they would turn to me instead—as now I feel bereft when, after the first thrill, my grandchildren turn to their mothers. There is nothing […]