![]() You can hear Her between trees.” These poems are a calling out-through meadows, emptied houses, dark skies-to wolf and self, parent and child, girl and woman, love and grief. Through it all, “Wolf is the ghost of a hurt remembering itself. They open themselves to reconstruction, redemption. They fragment in anxiety, and form into new wilderness. Mollys recent poetry has appeared in Blackbird, FIELD, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. A second collection, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Her debut collection, If the House (2019), won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. ![]() From “the beast your mother made/ who scans hood and bed,” to the ghost-guard summoned by a child on the night her family fractures, to the teenage son who transforms into “beauty, his dread-body,” the beings in these poems are themselves stories, spells: alchemized through language, always becoming, bearing hope and loss. Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, and editor. These poems explore how stories-fairy tales, family memories, myths, and dreams-tell us, and let us tell each other, who we are, and what’s wild and sacred in our connections. ![]() Sally Rosen Kindred’s third book, Where the Wolf, is a wood where a girl-turned-woman, a daughter-turned-mother, goes walking, searching for the warm fur, the hackles and hurts-past and future-inside her. ![]()
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