Fifth grade science classmates observed my first faint and I came to looking at the bottom of my wooden chair from the waxed floor. Before memory could reassemble itself, the world was made of fractured shapes erased of meaning. Only seconds on the world clock but the detachment, the perfect role of observer, resounds like […]
Kelly Madigan
Kelly Madigan has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, and the Distinguished Artist Award in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council. Her collection of poetry, The Edge of Known Things, was published by SFASU press. She teaches creative writing workshops with an environmental focus through Larksong Writers Place. Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Terrain.org, Puerto del Sol and Plant-Human Quarterly.