Maria Hummel
Maria Hummel’s poetry collection, House and Fire, won the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of three novels, most recently Still Lives, which was published by Counterpoint Press in 2018.
Reading List
The Castle You Gave Me
The castle you gave me is too small for my palm. Too large for the sky. Too deep for the shell in the sea. Too quiet for the clearing where the berries bloom red, where a child might find herself singing. Too dark for the clefts where the bees push their gold, too light for […]
Dromedary
Who doesn’t consider herself overlooked or underhumped? Who hasn’t worn that proud stumped expression? Doubt is a stubborn animal. On the days it doesn’t trample me, I ride it east, searching for the great caravans.
My Sad Horse
When he bent his nose to my cupped hand, I reached to stroke his beautiful head, right between the eyes. There, the hair grew short and flat; the bone lived just below it. I felt I was touching the lid of his mind. He looked at me then. He knew what I was doing, that […]