Desiree Santana

Desiree Santana is currently a Poe–Faulkner fellow at the University of Virginia. She was born in Coeburn, Virginia and raised in Tidewater. You can find her work on poets.org, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere.

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The Starving Time

Desiree Santana  | 
Issue 73.2 Spring 2024

We went on field trips to battlefields with long, green lawns grazed on in the dark by deer, bordered with split-rail fences and tall pines. What I remember of Jamestown is the smell of root-beer barrels and the slow demonstration of musket fire. How we covered our ears and how we […]