September: Poems

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Thanks to the editors of the following publications, where some of these poems first appeared: Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Poetry, Prose, and Photography: “Container Garden” The Greensboro Review: “Maybe Gravity” Mothering: “Milk” M Review: “Bleeding Heart,” “Cream of the Pour Is the Cream of Skin Thickening,” “September You Become Me,” “Through Hooded Clouds Untranslatable, Once” Not a Muse: A World Poetry Anthology: “Eurydice,” “Fired in the Body” The Paris Review: “Pomme” Perihelion: “American Terminal,” “Late September” Platte Valley Review: “Birth Is When We Recall Ourselves” Poetry: “La Porte,” “Dolphins at Seven Weeks,” “Kauai” Prairie Schooner: “Cheyenne,” “Yom Kippur” Rattle: “How Did We Come to Be the Ones Whose Feet Are Being Washed?,” “When We Saw It” The Southern Review: “At the DQ,” “Early Childhood” Wicked Alice: “Often She’d Drop into Fathomless” “Eurydice,” “Lingua,” and “The Sea Came Up and Drowned” appeared in The Blue Grotto, a chapbook published in 2009 by Dancing Girl Press. I would also like to thank the Northwestern University English Department, the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers for much needed support and encouragement, and the outstanding people at Northwestern University Press, especially the visionary and steadfast Parneshia Jones. I am grateful to my parents Cynthia and Jim Webster for everything, including a dreamer’s childhood beside woods and water. Thank you to my brother x Douglas for his laughter and comradeship, and to my loving grandparents, uncles, and aunts, especially Laurel Webster who built the playhouse, Marla Major who sent the books, and “Aunt Havisham” Cynthia Erskine who writes to remind me. Thank you to my friends Rachael Bergan, Julianna Vermeys, Karen Behm, Eula Biss, Lucy Anderton, Daniel Johnson, Jesse Lichtenstein, Bhikshuni Weisbrot, Stanzi Vaubel, Josie Raney, Kristina Goel, and Colleen Abel, many of whom read these poems in earlier stages, and to my mentors Mary Kinzie, Reginald Gibbons, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Anne Calcagno, and Carl Dennis. september ...