She teaches writing at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. As observer and observed, mother and patient, the poet recounts her constant movement between deep interior darknesses and the thin winter light outside. Her critical writing has appeared at The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Water Salt In Hinge, Molly Spencer speaks to us from both sides of a door ajar. Her poems, critical writing, and essays have since appeared in numerous periodicals, and she recently published two award-winning volumes of poetry. Molly’s recent poetry has appeared in Blackbird, FIELD, New England Review, Ploughshares , and Prairie Schooner. Spencer rededicated herself to her writing and completed a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the Rainier Writing Workshop in 2017. A second collection, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly Spencer covers chronic illness, domestic life, and nature in her second poetry book, Hinge Poet and U-M writing instructor Molly Spencer sees the. Her debut collection, If the House (2019), won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, and editor. The cedars were not silver, not bone-like, the heron’s flight Let me drift, going nowhere, in the moment Wasn’t rowing at all, only dipping the blade of my one oar Or a cry-the heron lifting, the heron breaking openĪnd who can I tell this to now-the children rowing on Marsh grass and the unrushed wandering of water, largest value no further than 1.5 IQR from the hinge (where IQR is the. Islands of sky flicker the brim, and thenīone-like and silver. Buy Hinge (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Molly Spencer (author) (ISBN: 9780809337972) from Amazons Book Store.

The lines given me by the river, I’ll leave to the river.

Hinge by Molly Spencer