
Twila Newey
TWILA NEWEY {[email protected]} received her MFA in creative writing from Naropa University. Her poems have appeared in Summerset Review, Rust & Moth, Psaltry & Lyre, Two Cities Review, The Inflectionist Review, and are forthcoming at The Cape Rock, After the Pause, and Radar Poetry. She has also completed her first novel, a portion of which was published in Exponent II. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with Jon, her husband and first reader, and their four children.
Issue of Blood
Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1
Last night she lay in bed and read the men’s words while blood flowed
and spread like a petal, pooled and ached, red as stymied truth.
Every woman from twelve to sixty could have told them life is
mutable, if they would have asked her—a flutter, a gush, a
screaming love