They arrive in red lipstick, hoop earrings, one wearing yellow pants on his head, his father’s large shoes. He is the clown, striped and dotted, introducing his older brother and sister as they instruct him to do. Somersaults. Pyramids. Amateur magic tricks. This sounds like a metaphor but it is not; my children are planning […]
Katie Kalisz
Katie Kalisz is the recipient of a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Quiet Woman, her first book, was a finalist for the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Her second book, Flu Season, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. She lives in Michigan with her husband and their three children.