Hannah Dow

Hannah Dow is the author of Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018), with poems recently appearing in Image, the Southern Review, and the Cincinnati Review, among others. She received the 2019 Cream City Review Summer Prize in poetry, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and has received awards and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf Orion. Hannah serves as editor-in-chief of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at Missouri Southern State University.

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Fever Dream, or: My Mother Tries to Teach Me About Love

Hannah Dow  | 
Issue 70.1 Fall 2021

I awake in the cold orbit of what my body has made & I’m a child again, sleepless beneath a fever that clings to me like air—& you’re lifting me out of bed & into the car & I’m lucid with the stories you’re telling me, or just dreaming my memories—a car seat sliding around […]