We ride the sky down,our voices falling back behind us, unraveling like smooth threads.—Anne Sexton, “Winter Colony” When Anne Sexton died in 1974you were five. You didn’t knowwho she was, didn’t know youwould start writing poems in sixth grade and never stop. Your grandmother had two of Sexton’s books, and though you never talked to […]
Jen Finstrom
Jen Finstrom is an adjunct instructor in the writing, rhetoric, and discourse department and the outreach coordinator in the Center for Writing-based Learning at DePaul University in Chicago. She was the poetry editor of Eclectica Magazine for thirteen years, and her recent publications include Escape Into Life and MockingHeart Review. Her work also appears in Silver Birch Press’s Ides: A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks and other Silver Birch Press anthologies.