Wendy Drexler’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Cider Press Review, Meatpaper, Mid-American Review, Nimrod (semi-finalist, 2006 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize), Off the Coast, Peregrine, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, umbrellajournal.com, and other journals. Her first book-length collection, Western Motel, was published in 2012 by Turning Point.

Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and in the anthologies Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years. Her chapbook, Drive-Ins, Gas Stations, the Bright Motels (Pudding House 2007), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2011 Cider Press Review also nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. Wendy is a poetry editor for Sanctuary, the magazine of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Her website is WendyDrexlerPoetry.com.

In answer to our question of why she writes, Wendy responded:

“Flannery O’Connor said, ‘How can I know what I mean until I see what I’ve said?’
I keep writing to discover what I hadn’t known before and for the delight of turning and tuning words into music on the page.”

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

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