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  • Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare
  • Brenda Hillman (bio)

towhee [Pipilo crissalis] wakes a human

    pp        cp cp cp chp chpppppppppppppcppppcpp cpp cpp(a woman tosses)    Gulf disaster        ster sister        aster        aster    as        aspppp cp cp p        bp bp BP BP    scree sreeeeem            wewe we didn'tneee neeed to move so fast

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woman in red sweater to hummingbird

            ssssssss        we    sssssss weeeno i'm not not    sweeet notsweeeeetie i'm not    something to eeeeeeat

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Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), and Practical Water (2009), and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (1982), Autumn Sojourn (1995), and The Firecage (2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, coedited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, and is also involved in nonviolent activism as a member of CodePink.

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