Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, as well as a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Narrative Magazine.
I.
Father at Table
Highway
Shells
My Father Speaks
All Things
'A Long Ways From Home'
To Kati Who Doesn't Remember
Monarch
Girl
After Surgery
The Last Day / Romania 1986
Look
II.
Araminta
39 Objects at the Smithsonian
Mystic
Coda: Refuge
III.
Go North
Notes on a Dream of Dying
Ordinary Sugar
Hypersisters
Repair Work
Admissions
Collect
IV.
The Name For
Chronic
Is It OK
Every Letter Every Word Every Page
Bad Romance
Good Romance
Level
V.
Wake
It's like We?
Return
Tyrant
Never Now
What You Meant
Kaleidoscope
VI.
Baker
Shalimar
Morning at Crash Boat Beach
Poetic Exercise in the Service of Love
Patience
Household
Stormwatching in Campania
Happy and Well
Elegy
Prayer
Things I Didn't Do With This Body & Things I Did
Like This
