Carolyn Oliver
Carolyn Oliver’s poems appear or are forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, the Cincinnati Review, Radar Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, Cherry Tree, FIELD, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, the Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from the Worcester Review, where she now serves as coeditor. Carolyn lives in Massachusetts with her family.
Reading List
Questions About Bisexuals #4
How can you be bi if you’re married to a man? Through the muted arborvitae slides early winter’s glycerin light, propelled by a blue windstorm’s blister-bluster. If you were with me on this side you’d see a cove carved out of the bronzed branches, see the ruby cardinal perched in the blow, […]
Frost Heaves
In another orbit the rover uncovers the familiar slow, unshowy power of water. It submits to change, sinks, draws more of itself upward, builds a billow below the seen. Ice bubbles the plains on Mars just as it ripples New England roads, where a broken axle is a missing forest, the missing forest […]
Do Not Fail to Yield
The facts are simple. It does not matter how much you try to be careful: the speed of your body cannot serve you. You can never predict when a crash might happen. The best way to protect yourself is restraint. For your own safety, do not be fooled if you reach the object. Unless you […]