For the Sperl family, 3/29/21 Sometimes we can plunge our hands into the earth and find crystals. Other times just rocks, blunt objects upon which we must write our own meaning. This was a day of rocks, when you changed direction with dizzying speed, grounded then airborne, with us then not in a flip: we […]
Issa M. Lewis
Issa M. Lewis is the author of Infinite Collisions (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Anchor (Aldrich Press, forthcoming in 2022). She is the 2013 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize and a runner-up for the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poems have previously appeared in The Banyan Review, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Split Rock Review, Panoply, and Rust+Moth, amongst others. She currently teaches at Davenport University and serves as an assistant editor for Trio House Press.