Things That Appear Ugly Or Troubling But Upon Closer Inspection Are . . . Gretchen Legler is a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Maine Farmington Her works of nonfiction include All the Powerful Invisible Things (Seal Press, 1995) and On the Ice (Milkweed Editions, 2005)
I Remain Very Sorry For What I Did to the Little Black Kitten Last night, the catch of grief came hard and quick It stung my bones My three-year-old daughter walked up to me—we had not been talking about cats—and said that little cats like milk, they like to lick it from their little milk bowls ___
Small Love Letters | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction Here is Gretchen watching Rachel, a young woman dancing Gretchen, the younger of these two young women, doesn’t have what she wants and isn’t who she wants to be, not yet She yearns for another version of twenty-something in rural America, but she’s not sure what rural America really means
Timberline | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction Gretchen E Henderson is the author of two books of nonfiction, Ugliness: A Cultural History and On Marvellous Things Heard, and two novels, The House Enters the Stree t and Galerie de Difformité, as well as poetry and opera
I hoisted them, two drug dealers, I guess that’s what they were, Her second book, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, won the Juniper Prize and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2010 Her poetry and brief prose have appeared in many literary magazines, including Poetry, The Iowa Review, and The New Yorker
The Soils I Have Eaten - Brevity mag Sometimes one snake gets the idea he can blink his eye He concentrates on this single violet thought A slick frog crunches a maple seed, and the snake immediately forgets what he was thinking Each bend of cypress root drinks a soft fen mud Each beard dangling from a branch says: I am a dirty man who had soup for lunch