Lynne Thompson was awarded the 2018 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize for her manuscript Fretwork, which will be published in 2019. Her previous collections were Start With a Small Guitar (2013) and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Award in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Ecotone, New England Review, Barrow Street, Salamander, Poetry, as well as the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Thompson is Reviews and Essays Editor for the literary journal, Spillway.
Give in to your inner goat. Do not say I am not a goat.
Do not say I have only two legs. You give milk, run with
herds, graze. Remove the latch on your mind. Baaa
in moonlight even though you will be shorn or stuffed
at a time you have not chosen. (More …)