Sue Burton

Sue D. Burton was apprenticeship-trained as a Physician Assistant at the Vermont Women's Health Center and has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Ohio Review, Water~Stone Review, and on Verse Daily.
Reading List
The Woman Who Is to be Sawn in Half Reveals the Secret of Her Dying Art
contort yourself, my dear, into the container — into your contraption — do a little shape-change — like my mother who at the wake became her coffin (at which I’d stared and stared so as not to think of her …