Both of my children were born too soon. My son was twelve weeks premature, and my daughter arrived ten weeks […]
The Lone Woman of Kokura
She was alone. The men and women of the domain were all gone. In their flight, they’d set the castle […]
Poetry in America: An Interview with Leah Reis-Dennis
Longtime Nursing Clio readers will remember Leah Reis-Dennis, who wrote the “Versing Clio” series for our blog, with each essay […]
Pink Hollyhocks
This month, National Poetry Month, we encounter a poem both contemporary and historical — “Pink Hollyhocks,” a piece from Diane […]
Women, Animals, and the Poetry of Activism
“What could be more calculated to produce brutal wife-beaters than long savage cruelty toward the other animals?”1 When Edith Ward […]
The Language of the Brag
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
The Abdominal Exam
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
Anne Bradstreet’s Elegies for her Grandchildren
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
The Sleepers
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
