Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, including Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which was the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in poetry, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next book, Useful Junk, is due out in 2022 from BOA Editions. She is currently a professor of English at Virginia Tech.
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Assembled Audience
This morning on the beach there’s a small nurse shark, whiskered & flipped on the sand & right past its shined white underbelly, a man—dissipated, ponytailed, leathery— filming his younger blond girlfriend with his phone. She’s wearing a tiny print bikini—the kind that’s nearly a thong, cheeky—& is literally shaking her ass. When she stops […]
Jesus Is the Reason
for the Season reads the marquee on the Lyric Drive-In closed for the winter though it’s unseasonably warm which I know because the waterfalls frozen en route down the palisades rock walls are thawing to small rivulets while a semi-trailer with airbrushed Ten Commandments tablets and a One Nation Under God flag passes us on […]