In class this week, my students argue whether we should share pieces about sexual assault during workshop. I miss the first part of the conversation because the words S.A. send me into emotional blackout. I’m sorry, I explain to them. You couldn’t hear me for […]
Sam Moe
Sam Moe is the author of nine books. Her most recent poetry collection, Red Halcyon, is forthcoming from Querencia Press. Her debut short story collection, I Might Trust You, is out from Experiments in Fiction (2025). She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and received fellowships from the Longleaf Writer’s conference and the Key West Literary Seminar. Sam has also attended residencies at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, VCCA, and Château d’Orquevau.
Heist
You, beautiful, with a mother’s diamonds in your pocket, hands full of clear plastic baggies, blonde hair pulled back with a bobby pin. We’re rolling joints on a faded porch, we’re into rocking chairs in the dull light of a mostly faded moon, we’re uninsured, nervous, shaking as pieces of burnt toast pass through our […]