Amy Woolard
Amy Woolard is a legal aid attorney working on civil rights policy & legislation in Virginia. Her debut poetry collection, Neck of the Woods, received the Alice James Award and was published in April 2020 by Alice James Books. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Fence, & elsewhere, while her essays and reporting have been featured in publications such as Slate, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, The Rumpus, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Reading List
Tend
That sun sure knows what it’s doing When it goes down. Too long To stop now, our song warns. Desire is Dead. Long live desire. The bruised Tomato of late July. The low-top All-Stars banging in the dryer. Even The cicadas are tired of having to Repeat themselves. Sugar, you have A favorite drinking glass […]
Aubade Palinode
The morning knocks lowkey Astonishing as a dog’s Inside-out ear. The dog rattles Awake like a spoon in that cup You used to use. You’re not in this one, Or the next. Missing us is just a smoke Alarm begging for batteries. What’s left But the last time’s last time, turning it in My hands […]