In all our years together, chicken soup has never once been on the menu. But the oncologist said nutrition, said make it palatable. So I Google recipes on your first day of chemo, as your Power Port— so new the incision still puckers under its Dermabond glaze— waits like a docking station. The […]
Janice Northerns
Janice Northerns is the author of Some Electric Hum, (Lamar University Literary Press, 2020), winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award from the University of Kansas, the Nelson Poetry Book Award, and a WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Poetry. The author grew up on a farm in Texas and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas Tech University, where she received the Robert S. Newton Creative Writing Award. Other honors include a Brush Creek Foundation writing residency, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and numerous awards for individual poems. She lives in Kansas.