Dolores Hayden

Dolores Hayden's poetry collections are American Yard and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner. Her poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, Slate, American Scholar and Best American Poetry. She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club and has been awarded fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her nonfiction deals with the history of the American landscape, and she is a professor at Yale University. Her website is www.DoloresHayden.com.

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Modern Gospels, 1930

Dolores Hayden  | 
Issue 62.2 Spring 2013

The widow rocks on her worn-down porch as Sister Aimee pipes Foursquare Gospel on Saturday night. Sister has the spirit, she makes you feel as clean as a wedding dress, as modern as the Packard Gospel Car she drives to …