Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner is the author of four books of poems, including Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner, and Copia (BoA Editions, 2014). Her poems have appeared in journals including Tin House, AmericanPoetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently an associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.
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Listen to the author reading this poem. And the neighbor’s daughter shows my son the way her father let her hold his gun, with bullets in it. She was on Adderall, and now Ritalin, and they’re only in Kindergarten but …