Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, PhD, emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six. She is author of three poetry collections: 40 Weeks (YesYes Books, 2023), Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), and The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press, 2019). Her poems and essays appear in Poetry, Ploughshares, and Brevity, among others. Julia is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University.
Reading List
Hurricane
One hand cinched around my throat, my son reaches his pointer finger through my trachea, morning breath sucked clean. I cough & cough— how much of me he takes, how hard his squeeze & puncture? Not strong enough to open a gallon of milk, but enough hard to hurt. Unacceptable, I say and he asks […]
At the Slim Chickens’ Drive-thru that First Summer after My Son’s Diagnosis
Wearing his two-year-old sister’s Paw Patrol snow hat in impending-thunderstorm Southern summer heat, my six-year-old son screeches for me to reach back and pick up the plastic Iron Man he’s chucked to the floor for the countless time. My face shifts into someone I’ve stopped recognizing since his diagnosis. I don’t raise my voice anymore […]