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Cynthia Manick
USA
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Cynthia Manick is
a Pushcart Prize nominated poet with a MFA in Creative
Writing from the New School. She has received fellowships
from Cave Canem, The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts &
Sciences, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop,
Hedgebrook, and the Vermont Studio Center. She also serves
as East Coast Editor of the independent press Jamii
Publishing and curates Soul Sister Revue, a reading series
for established and emerging poets. A finalist for the Split
This Rock Poetry Competition, the Yes Yes Books Open Book
Competition, and the Perugia Press Poetry Prize, Manick’s
work has appeared or is forthcoming in African
American Review, BLACKBERRY, Callaloo, DMQ
Review, Gemini Magazine, HEArt, Kinfolks Quarterly, Kweli
Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Passages North, PLUCK!, Sou’wester,
Spillway, St. Ann' s Review, The Cossack Review, The Dead
Mule School of Southern Literature, The
Weary Blues, The
Wide Shore,Tidal
Basin,
and Up
the Staircase Quarterly. She
currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. http://www.cynthiamanick.com |
Things I Carry Into the World
when I was small
I thought my body held
all the elements
my left instep knew
how to make snow
drop like pendulums
rain shaped like spoons
the volume of Niagara Falls
a heat so heavy
it’s in our blood you know
the power to grow
fibroids ossified fruit
to hold lightning inside
grow daughters among
shifting currents
like thunderclouds
I don’t stray far from earth-
ly things
I still whet my teeth
on branches in the yard
wonder how planets are made
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