Emily Updegraff

EMILY UPDEGRAFF {[email protected]} lives in Wilmette, Illinois, where she works in university administration and is raising two teenagers. She has published poems in Third Wednesday Magazine, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Exponent II, Irreantum, and other journals. She is a bimonthly book review contributor at Great Lakes Review and has served as a features editor for Exponent II. She is her ward’s music coordinator.

Homemade Medicine

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

Grandpa filled gelcaps with his own mixof dried herbs. Before clean food,before expensive organics, beforewellness became photogenic,he was a health nut. I asked himwhy did he grind dried leavesthe color of new hay,why did he…

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Mormon Tea

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

I.They leftDenmark’s ripening wheat fields,crossed moss-covered pathsof England and Wales, forsookthe saturated airof Tennessee to build homeson ground glazed in the open-air kilnof the western sun.Called by God,they did not think to askfirst peoples for…

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