Sally Rosen Kindred

Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of three poetry collections: No Eden and Book of Asters, both from Mayapple Press, and Where the Wolf (Diode Editions, 2021), winner of the Diode Book Prize and the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, the Greensboro Review, Image, Plume, and New Ohio Review. She teaches workshops online for The Poetry Barn.

Reading List

Sad Child Psalm, 1975

Sally Rosen Kindred  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

Altarpiece with Wolf and Door

Sally Rosen Kindred  | 
Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

1. That mother wanted me pretty meadow-minded, tinseled, and hooved in blue, sugar-licking the fence She wanted me fielded blond brays floral and never thirsty, some honeysuckle hem my lips pin curl plump and twill wanted my words sewn in hers: never a girl spilling her never words swarming from seams only glass bees (pretty) filling the blooms between […]