It was the beginning of an ending
we all had our stories to tell
what with the layoffs
and school closings
someone was reading
the fine print
someone had gone fishing
a storm was brewing
so loud you could feel it
in your sinews or synapses
as loud as a storm could be.
Say It with Flowers
Ethel Rackin
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- May 28, 2018
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Copyright © 2018 by Ethel Rackin
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Ethel Rackin is the author of The Forever Notes (Parlor Press, 2013); Go On (Parlor Press, 2016), a National Jewish Book Award finalist; and Evening (Furniture Press, 2017). Elizabeth Robinson awarded her collaborative lyric sequence, “Soledad,” written with Elizabeth Savage, the 2016 Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred. Rackin’s poems, book reviews, and collaborations have appeared widely in journals such as American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, and Kenyon Review. She has taught at Penn State Brandywine, Haverford College, and Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, where she is currently an associate professor.
Spring 2018
Chicago, Illinois
Columbia College Chicago
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Poems from Columbia Poetry Review have been included in several volumes of The Best American Poetry.
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