I have an abundance of mothers for now Women born in the first part of the last century Who know when everything happened though they do not always agree on the dates All have worn through the soles of their shoes One painted and two played the piano a third was a photographer and another […]
Susanna Lang
Susanna Lang divides her time between Chicago and Uzès, France. She is the 2024 winner of the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize from December Magazine, and her most recent chapbook, Like This, was released in 2023 (Unsolicited Books), along with her translations of poems by Souad Labbize, My Soul Has No Corners (Diálogos Books). A new collection of Souad Labbize’s poems, Unfasten the Silk of Your Silence is now available from Éditions des Lisières. Her fourth full-length collection of poems, This Spangled Dark, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. Her poems, translations and reviews have appeared in such publications as The Common, Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, American Life in Poetry, Rhino Reviews, Mayday, and The Slowdown. Her translations of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy include Words in Stone and The Origin of Language, and she is now working with Hélène Dorion and Christine Guinard on new translations. More information available at www.susannalang.com.
Visitors
I came back from the woods festooned with the threads and tatters of spider webs. The moth that hovered outside my door this morning, an eye on each wing, was gone; later the tabby would tear off one wing, watch closely as what remained went fluttering across the road. Now two deer have paused on […]