Tacey M. Atsitty
TACEY M. ATSITTY {[email protected]} Diné (Navajo), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People). Atsitty is a recipient of the Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, the CorsonBrowning Poetry Prize, Morning Star Creative Writing Award, and the Philip Freund Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in numerous publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018).
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Candy Dish Sonnet
Already the heart-shaped dish on my end tablelies combed bare: long strips dug out============== a cleaning out============== a scratch in grain, table scraps lain out so comely, meaning to loveor hold cacao or almonds—those striaeof…
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VII. Sometimes I kneel down to play a gamefrom my childhood. Only then can I feelgrains of gravel, each pebble digs in so real.Sometimes I act as though I am the same,a young girl, rope…
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