I’m going back to the past the way the wren goes back to the tree back into the faceless past. I remember the story of diamonds sewn into the hem of grandmother’s skirt, the tale of uncle hidden among the hay bales, the story of Stanislaus sent ahead to find a job in America, then […]
Geraldine Connolly
Geraldine Connolly is the author of four full-length collections, mostly recently, Aileron (Terrapin Books, 2018). She’s received two N.E.A. creative writing fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council fellowship, and the W.B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Prize. She has had residencies at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Chautauqua Institute. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Cortland Review and Shenandoah. It has been featured on The Writers Almanac and anthologized in Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High School Students, Sweeping Beauty: Poems About Housework and The Sonoran Desert:A Literary Field Guide. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her website is http: www.geraldineconnolly.com