Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman's recent book is House of Burnt Offerings, available from Pleasure Boat Studio. She is the recipient of an Eric Mathieu King Fund award from the Academy of American Poets for her book Storm (blue Begonia Press). Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, J Journal, FIELD, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Midwest Quarterly and Prairie Schooner. Visit www.judith skillman.com
Reading List
Prospero Sees the Sea
These resinous fields stretch away from my prison, rosined by wind and tendrils of my daughter’s hair, as she grows more beautiful. Nacre—that shine upon the mollusk when it’s washed ashore to die at my feet, another sign come to …