C.D. Wright


Imaginary August

If one stood perfectly still. Even in the withering hours

of then. Hair down to here. Being alive and quiet.

One could forget oneself. Forget what one didn’t even recognize.

How mad it felt. Subliminally. One could pick out goldfinches

and mourning cloaks among the dying stalks of cosmos

and across the ditch of grey wastewater they used to irrigate

the burial ground, a young man in a late-flowering tree

taking our photograph.



C.D.Wright lives outside of Providence. She has published eleven collections of poetry, most recently Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil, Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, and One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, with photographer Deborah Luster. She teaches at Brown University.

Masthead


Executive Editor
Tom Grimes

Managing Editor
Chris Margrave

Fiction Editor
Julia Eddington

Poetry Editor
James Knippen

Nonfiction Editor
Jaime Netzer

Book Review Editor
Luisa Muradyan

Interview Editor
Emily Davis Watson

Copy Editor
Shiloh Booker

Webmaster
Danielle Ducrest

Public Relations Manager
Nicole Moore

Video Manager
Isaac Torres

Readers
Brett Bisceglia
Ross Feeler
Jana Fornario
John Fry
Ali Haider
Jenny Hanning
Faylita Hicks
Stephanie Motz
Monet Moutrie
Rujuta Paradkar
Jaime Pickett
Richard Robertson
Denise Rodriguez
Michael Rosenbaum
Richard Santos
Mary Selph
Shawnacy McArthur
Kelsey Shipman
Dana Sprayberry
Martha Stallman
Joe Vastano

Faculty Advisor
Roger Jones

Founding Editors
Michael Hart
Evelyn Lauer
Josh Magnuson
Toby Peterson
Michael Wolfe

Advisory Board
Katie Angermeier
Ben Engel
Evelyn Lauer
Herpreet Singh

ISSN#1936-7716

logo for the CLMP

All photos were taken at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, by Sameera Kapila and Herpreet Singh.

Website design by Sameera Kapila