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
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
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 […]