Claire T. Feild |
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The November Selected Poet is Claire T. Feild Please feel free to email Claire at: ctillandsia@gmail.com |
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PILASTER The pillar of the community feels pride His moodiness slashes him into two Guilty of participating in a shivaree, Sitting on his porch swing reading a BLANKETED Her personality overcast, she hears the Since she combs her black hair most of At night, she depreciates the lighting After she dies, her overshadowed Rolling her ashes into the mud, her The mother plays baseball with The grandkids laugh so loudly at Fundamental to her nature is a dislike This witch takes great pleasure in tripping When she sees these individuals show She lives in constant fear that someone |
Claire T. Feild, nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Krater Quarterly, has had 355 poems and 5 creative nonfiction stories accepted for publication in 114 print journals and anthologies such as, The Tulane Review; Ghostlight: The Magazine of Horror; Folio; Rockland Lit.; Wordplay; Spillway; Poeming Pigeons; The Carolina Quarterly; Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley; The Horror Zine; Deranged; The Path: A Literary Magazine; The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal; and Literature Today (Volume 5). Her first poetry book is Mississippi Delta Women in Prism. Her five literary journals are in a series titled Beyond Doggerel: A Literary Journal for Teachers in Education. Her first chapbook is Southern Women: The 1950s. Her second chapbook is Indigo Blues (Origami Poetry Project). Her second book (creative nonfiction) is titled A Delta Vigil: Yazoo City, Mississippi, the 1950s. Her third chapbook, which is set in the Mississippi Delta, is titled Mississippi Delta Memories (creative nonfiction).
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