Witch Wife
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Poetry, “Nursery”
Forklift, Ohio, “Sermon,” “Twenty-One,” “Gräpple”
Dusie, “Ought”
Prac Crit, “Scarlet”
Tarpaulin Sky, “Voice Lesson,” “Purgatorio”
The poem “Thigh Gap” appeared in Circe’s Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry, edited by Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer and published by Accents Publishing in 2016.
The poem “Doubloon Oath” appeared in Best American Experimental Writing 2015, edited by Seth Abramson, Jessie Damiani, and Douglas Kearney and published by Wesleyan University Press. Separately, it was produced in 2016 by Factory Hollow Press as a limited-edition chapbook, with illustrations by Philip Miller.
The poem “Jantar Mantar” was produced as a limited-edition broad-side by Coconut Books in 2015.
The poem “Why Don’t You Wear a Black Crepe Glove Embroidered in Gold, Like the Hand That Bore a Falcon?” takes its title from one of Diana Vreeland’s “Why Don’t You” columns in Harper’s Bazzar.
“Political Poem” borrows lines from Martin Luther King Jr. and John Wilkes Booth.
I would like to thank the University of Louisville’s Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida, for their generous support of portions of this work. Christopher Merrill, Dan Rosenberg, Rebecca Myers, Kim Brooks, Kaethe Schwehn, Lauren Haldeman, Dina Hardy, Patricia Caswell, Bruce Rodgers, Sharyn Lonsdale, Sandi Hammonds, Alexis Orgera, Frank London, John Jahnke, Steve Kistulentz, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Rob Tarbell, Ruthie Stephens, Eve Beglarian, Daniel Levy, Chandrahas Choudhury, Anirudh Rathore, Mandvi Ranawat, and the staff of Hotel Dera Rawatsar in Jaipur, India, offered me friendship, hospitality, and inspiration during the writing process.
To my mother, Patricia, and my husband, Philip: stars & stars & stars.
Kiki Petrosino is the author of Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013) and Fort Red Border (2009), both from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, the New York Times, FENCE, Gulf Coast, Jubilat, Tin House and online at Ploughshares. She is founder and coeditor of Transom, an independent online poetry journal. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. Her awards include a residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat and research fellow-ships from the University of Louisville’s Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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