Tacey M. Atsitty

Tacey M. Atsitty is Tsénahabiłnii and born for Ta'neeszahnii. Her work appears or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Poem-a-Day, and other publications. Her book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). She holds an MFA from Cornell University and is currently a PhD student at Florida State University. She lives in Tallahassee with her husband.

Reading List

Bird Dance

Tacey M. Atsitty  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

The nice thing about tree rings is tomorrow they’ll curve out of themselves, stay beneath blossom or shoot off into each other; they’ll grow then gray into each other— to delineate one from another is like pulling at centipede grass: you’ll pull up the entire lawn or forest, leaving only skinfolds […]

Gown Sonnet

Tacey M. Atsitty  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

Somewhere in Sometown, USA, there lies a bride, in a trunk—in an attic—in a house— in a tangled mess of lace and limbs, a douse of clouds floating across the landscape of her eyes. Even now, her lace has begun to curl like eye- lashes on a night ready for batting, her blouse see-through as […]