Rachel Morgan
Rachel Morgan is the author of the chapbook, Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey (Final Thursday Press, 2017). She is a coeditor of Fire Under the Moon: An Anthology of Contemporary Slovene Poetry, and her work is included in the anthology Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America and recently appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, and Barrow Street. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. She was a finalist for the 2017 National Poetry Series and winner of the 2020 Fineline Competition. Currently she teaches at the University of Northern Iowa and is an editor for the North American Review.
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Hoping
For two weeks every year we return to the weft of mountains where my mother’s ancestors lived. Across the ridge, the hair of each tree branch blows separate from the woods below. On the pastured hillside are the bones of my greats and I wonder if they could imagine me here. Well, not me, but […]