Chelsea Wagenaar
Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of two books of poetry, most recently The Spinning Place, winner of the 2018 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, the Cincinnati Review, and Literary Matters. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Mark Wagenaar, and their two kids.
Reading List
How I Will Teach My Daughter to Mop
Is even memory dopplered, changing as it recedes from us? That year the man next door hit his girlfriend’s head into a wall. Later that week, after close, as I mopped the grenadined grid of dance floor, I saw the owner’s bourbon-bright eyes on the mop’s hard shaft in my hand. Once, a man wanted […]