Robin Gow
Robin Gow (they/fae/it pronouns) is a trans poet and witch author from rural Pennsylvania. Fae is the author of several poetry books, an essay collection, YA, and middle-grade novels in verse, including A Million Quiet Revolutions (FSG Books for Young Readers, 2022).
Reading List
Yard Sale
I stapled my wrist to a telephone poll and announced I would be selling all my past on Saturday. Most of the town performs this ritual. Cradling armfuls of species and heredity. Preparing coffins for every single fork and infant. I lined stuffed animals up in a row. For a few dollars I will let […]
sally & valentina
a capsule made of hair— the earth’s gumball & teeth, what could women know of space? each stage of the rocket another leg broken off at the knee. there are girls up there i say from between the green curtains of my bedroom. billy has a telescope that we can never focus right. i had […]
we love george washington
we love george washington, his skull growing cherry trees from each tooth’s nest. so so many, all of him, all the george washingtons across the country, portrait neck up, portrait tall, portrait face, portrait with mary, cannon bloom & crossing the delaware; the water: viper cold & snap. a bullet hole through a blue coat. […]
For a Sunflower/Woman
i knew you first as the ghost sunflower. yellow planted & forgot to water. we leave zebra seeds; salt in the shower. please, green hot love me; soil & altar. yellow planted & forgot to water. bucket, girl-garden, pour me june over. oh green hot love me; soil me, falter, a clover & clover & […]
Posts
Forgiveness in Poetry: David Interviews Robin Gow
David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s associate poetry editor, interviews poets! To showcase their voices, the questions in the interview were removed, leaving behind only the voice of the writer. In this interview, Robin Gow talks about the ways poetry differs from other art forms and allows more space for contradiction.