Tara Bray
Tara Bray is the author of Small Mothers of Fright (LSU Press, 2015) and Mistaken For Song (Persea Books, 2009). Her recent poems have appeared in Poetry, Crazyhorse, Agni, The Southern Review, Image, and The Hudson Review, and have been featured by Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. She currently lives in Richmond, where she teaches research writing at Virginia Commonwealth University
Reading List
Beneath the Hawk
I live beneath the hawk untouched and bare, but sometimes it descends determined, wings spread. Today I cut through a parking lot to follow it, walked along the pines beyond my neighborhood. I took my camera there. It was as …
The Flautist
Her shoulders round over the line of light while she betters the wren’s dangerous song, fingers ticking to channel air. The flute gleams, trills, organizes flight, the crowd struck as she doubles over birdcall. The scene is small, the making …
On the Way Out of the Sanctuary We Pause
On the way out of the sanctuary we pause for the uncomfortable handshake with the preacher, who says she has googled my husband and me and how she loves poets. I look at my toes, hidden nicely away, don’t tell …