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THERE’S A RATTLE, SOMETIMES
“A strange earth / for this staggered colony of desperate valiant specks. There is / no there, here.”
— 3rd Place Winner of the Spotlight Award —
Miranda Beeson is the recipient of the Jody Donohue Poetry Prize. New poems can be found in Barrow Street, The Southampton Review & The Laurel Review. Her chapbook Ode to the Unexpected is available from Shrinking Violet Press. She has recently completed a collection of poems, WILDLIFE. She will receive her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton in May 2019.www.mirandabeeson.com
“A strange earth / for this staggered colony of desperate valiant specks. There is / no there, here.”