Lynn Powell
Lynn Powell was born and raised in East Tennessee but now lives in Ohio. Her collections of poetry include Old & New Testaments and The Zones of Paradise, and her nonfiction book Framing Innocence: A Mother's Prosecution and a Community's Response has been widely praised. She has received individual artist fellowships from New Jersey, Ohio, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she current teaches at Oberlin College.
Reading List
Love Poem from the Wrong Side of the Rain
What would April do? Tease hidden meanings from the bulbs, raise the stakes and double my entendres, and bet all my roses on the bottom line. But it’s the season of embarrassed trees, the modest charms of leaf-rot and briar …