Traci Brimhall: Intimacy and the Everyday

April is National Poetry Month in The US. Her first published collection is called Rookery, and naturally, it features a number of poems about birds.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, bird, life, including: And to celebrate, we're featuring contemporary poets who write about our feathered friends.

1. 01I did graduate school in New York City and then received a fellowship in Madison, Wisconsin, right after I graduated
2. 02This one is more allegorical or metaphorical of the end of a relationship
3. 03There's something else going wrong in the relationship, and that's why the relationship's gonna be over