Thank you to the Kingsley Tufts and Kate Tufts Awards, to the Tufts family, to Claremont Graduate School, and to all the judges and readers of this award. I am eternally grateful, & excited to keep pursuing my strangest writing ideas-- maybe they aren't so strange after all.

Dig that I now have a bio Poetry Foundation plus two poems, including 'Stetson in Retrograde,' the longest & last poem I wrote for the INDEX (@sarabandebooks). Also have a project with them that should be out in the next month or two--stay tuned...

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'They would never be happy unless they could talk to the moon as though it were a foolish baby.'
Dara Yen Elerath in Wigleaf:
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Just finished Dark Braid. Was going to post one more poem from it but am holding off.

I have new, surreal flash piece in Wigleaf! Sincerely grateful to the editors for including me. 🩷

'We knew all mothers felt akin to the moon, they liked its whiteness which was the whiteness of their milk; they liked its roundness which was the roundness of their breasts'
Love this tiny one by Dara Yen Elerath Wigleaf:

I have new, surreal flash piece in Wigleaf! Sincerely grateful to the editors for including me. 🩷

“The moon is the very image of silence...Stars were the first text, the first instance of gabbiness; connecting the stars, making a pattern out of them was the first story, sacred to storytellers. But the moon was the first poem, in the lyric sense.'

— Mary Ruefle

“They came from every corner of the house, hurtling towards us, carrying casserole dishes or …”

“*Come to us*, they'd call in the night, *we want to care for you*, they'd croon ...”

The Mother Infestation by Dara Yen Elerath in Wigleaf wigleaf.com/202404mother.h…

new new: 'The Mother Infestation,' by Dara Yen Elerath: wigleaf.com Dara Yen Elerath

'They would pray for another infant, another child, even one as wild as a wolf cub.'
Dara Yen Elerath Wigleaf

'They would never be happy unless they could talk to the moon as though it were a foolish baby.' --Dara Yen Elerath on the Wigleaf mainpage: wigleaf.com

I missed that I was a recent poem-of-the-day selection on the Poetry Foundation site. Here it is! poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/76717…

Oh yes, Lydia Davis

It’s World Poetry Day, which means it’s also a good day to pre-order DRESSING THE BEAR (Trio House Press)! 💙🙏
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Today's #NationalPoetryMonth selection is 'Things We Were Told About the Moon in School' by Dara Yen Elerath
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