Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of two poetry collections: Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013) and The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020). Her poems appear in the Boston Review, the Missouri Review, FIELD, Crazyhorse, Memorious, and elsewhere. Her essays appear in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017, The Best American Travel Writing 2017, the Missouri Review, and other journals. A former Kenyon Review Fellow, she lives in Washington, D.C.

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Questions About the Father

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers  | 
Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

But what will you tell the child when the child begins to ask? —Social Worker, Washington, D.C., 2017 What name can I call him? Listen. Our language is well-known for its frequency of the silent letters: the h, for example, in honor, g and its ghost in the phlegm. What you can’t hear is […]