Leona Sevick
Leona Sevick is the Press 53 Award for Poetry winner for her first full-length book of poems, Lion Brothers. Her work appears in Orion, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbird, and the Southern Review. She was a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Fellow for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She serves as advisory board member of the Furious Flower Black Poetry Center and is Professor of English at Bridgewater College in Virginia, where she teaches Asian American literature.
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Something
They said take something of hers, something soft. I couldn’t. Everything I landed on too painful to bear away from that house. But here you are—her blanket hefted in my child’s thin arms, now settled on my couch. During the daylight hours the dog burrows deep in your folds, and each night, cocooning herself inside […]
Albino Redwoods
The heartless, the myopic call us vampires, parasites, though we are neither of these. It is true we cannot feed ourselves, cannot make our food from light alone, need the others. Large stomata in our leaves, an anomaly, send water into the air—an endless crying jag. Our roots feed from the ground, absorb all the […]
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Reading Redwoods
A song suggestion and insight into Volume 72.1 poem “Albino Redwoods” by Leona Sevick.