new from above/ground press: Entering Sappho, by Sarah Dowling

Entering Sappho
Sarah Dowling
$5

IN Ninety-seven Troys

Eighty-three Eurekas

Fifty-seven Etnas

Fifty-six Antiochs

Fifty-four Athenses

Fifty-four Romes

Fifty-one Albions

And fifty Arcadias

In forty-nine Palmyras

Forty-eight Spartas

Forty-five Senecas

Thirty-nine Phoenixes

Thirty-nine Alphas

Thirty-seven Homers

Thirty-six Caledonias

Thirty-six Carthages

Thirty-five Macedonias

Thirty-three Uticas

And thirty-one Corinths

In thirty Milos

Twenty-nine Omegas

Twenty-seven Smyrnas

Twenty-five Argoses

Twenty-five Adrians

And twenty-four Olympias

I wake up and disappear

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
July 2017
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Sarah Dowling is the author of DOWN (Coach House, 2014) and Security Posture (Snare, 2009) which received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She has previously published one chapbook, Birds & Bees (TrollThread, 2012), as well as numerous shorter works in literary journals. Sarah teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.

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