Amanda Auchter
Amanda Auchter is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of the 2013 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry and the 2012 Perugia Press Book Award, and The Glass Crib, winner of the 2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming at HuffPost, CNN, Crab Creek Review, Rhino, Rust + Moth, the Indianapolis Review, the West Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. Follow her on Twitter @ALAuchter.
Reading List
Waiting by the Phone
I’m fifteen again and hung over the side of my parents’ bed, my long hair sweeping the old green carpet, skinny legs straight out, making angels of bedsheets. I’m wanting a boy to call me back, to call me his baby his little chicken his sweet garden where I grow like the […]
The Source
I came into this world already in grief. My birth mother had her handbag, her blue cardigan. She was beautiful in red lipstick. She left me behind like a package on a city bus. I stewed in my own hothouse for months—pricked footsoles, a nose of tubing. My own blood was […]
Chronic
It is time I discuss my sickness. And here my fingers want to write skinless. And sometimes it is like this— a body unspooled in the red morning light. The light that claims the basil on the sill, my fingernails, my lungs which strain with their own scarred music. I begin […]