Allison Funk
Allison Funk is the author of four books of poems, most recently The Tumbling Box from C&R Press, 2009. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, Paris Review, Prarie Schooner, and the Cincinnati Review. She is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Reading List
In the Pentlands
Allison Funk: In the Pentlands Here, where I am buffeted, barely able to stand, a kestrel hangs impossibly still in the wind. I envy its otherness, its look of being somewhere else— far from where I’ve scrabbled up the slope, …