Ann Wilberton

Ann Wilberton is a queer poet and librarian living in Rhode Island. She’s interested in writing about queer joy, memory/forgetting, invisible disability, and aging. She is enrolled in the MFA program at UMass Boston. Her work can also be found in Rattle, Maine Review, and Critical Read.

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Meeting the Pleasure Cruiser

Ann Wilberton  | 
Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

I am an inventory of pain, a jalopy like the litany that dotted our backyard and filled my father’s garage, half rust but wholly filled with good intention. I pull on navy coveralls, apply grease here and there, replace a part, jerry-rig, kluge, duct tape it all and keep going. I once tied a muffler […]

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Tinkering

Behind The Poem | Ann Wilberton

Ann Wilberton writes about joy and the hopeful art of tinkering.