Emily Pérez
Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize; House of Sugar, House of Stone; and two chapbooks. She coedited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo Fellow and Ledbury Critic, she’s received support from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, The Community of Writers, and others. She teaches high school in Denver, where she lives with her family.
Reading List
We are all God’s Poems
—after Philip Metres Bay Area Rapid Transit, Oakland to San Francisco, 2019 I find the tattered pages of a madman, poems and plans strewn on a seat, the sweat, the proteins in the cabin’s air setting allergies aloft, the smell of someone’s takeout stacked in cartons wrapped in double plastic bags. People congregate in hush […]
What’s a Thing You Can Finish What’s a Thing You Can Fix
I woke with confidence woke with restlessness woke with a sense that I must work ceaselessly that I must not cease the working if I want breakfast I must make it if I want a book I must write it if I want a mountain I must get in the dirt with my tiny shovel […]