Tag: Anne Champion

  • Anne Champion Poetry: “Anne Sexton Prepares for the End”

    Anne Champion Poetry: “Anne Sexton Prepares for the End”

    After the shoulder heave of a garage door, my body weighs heavy in my shoes,a little slack, a little sagging— it’s no secret time is erasing me, and only vodka can wet my throat.I inhale its pungent punch, the scent familiar in its knock-out discomfort, just as my body is onlyfamiliar when the knots squeeze…

  • Three Poems by Anne Champion

    Three Poems by Anne Champion

    How Capitalism Breathes Through a gas mask/ in a uniform/ hurling tear gas/ with a chokehold/ elbow cocked like a gun/ deep inhale/ holding its breath/ ducking for cover during a mass shooting/ the aroma of factory chimneys smells like money/ through a gas mask/ does blood smell like power/ drop the noose/ drop the…

  • Reluctant Mistress, poetry by Anne Champion, reviewed by Hannah Baker-Siroty

    Reluctant Mistress, poetry by Anne Champion, reviewed by Hannah Baker-Siroty

    Anne Champion’s Reluctant Mistress is a beautiful first book of poetry that, like the best first books, possesses a rawness and vulnerability to it. Though there are many themes here, I believe the best developed are desire, femininity, and this notion of somehow being a runner-up. Reluctant Mistress begins with the poem “Words,” offering us…