The bride dressed in white is taking pictures in bamboo beyond the ladies throned in stone at the edge of river birch. magnolia. i find a bench beyond the tents set up outside the mansion. beside blue ice. japonica. spirea. i get a little sad, thinking how i never had a proper wedding. no dress […]
Kathleen Hellen
Kathleen Hellen’s debut collection Umberto’s Night won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She is the author of The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Meet Me at the Bottom, and two chapbooks. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, Hellen’s work has appeared in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Subtropics, Vassar Review, Witness, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. Awards include prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.