Michelle Whittaker
Michelle Whittaker is the author of Surge (great weather for MEDIA) and was awarded the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist Medal and 2017 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry. Recent poems appear in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Southampton Review, Fjord Review, and other publications. She is an assistant professor in the Program of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.
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Bonefish
At my birthday dinner: I chose the woodstove salmon, despite my ex-lover dictating from a parasitic medical book, in his blood-stained scrubs, the ways uncooked salt fish could infest the stomach lining with tapeworm. Even when I silenced myself, blinking wildly away our intestinal tubing, his Russian voice continued whispering bright light through the back […]