Amy Watkins @ red lion sq.
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Milk & Water
Yellow Flag Press

"Watkins explores motherhood and the death of her sister in this quiet and powerful collection. Each poem builds a narrative of love and loss and the fears that drive everyday life."

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Out of Print with Ryan Rivas
In episode 2, Amy Watkins talks mythology, her fear of birds, and discovering Florida as a landscape worthy of literature.

Living History: An Interview with Campbell McGrath in Fantastic Floridas
"We think of ourselves as aloof from history. History is like a movie that’s playing somewhere else, but we’re just living our regular life here. No. Our life is part of history. History is a collective expression of all of our time on earth..."
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"Voicing Desire" in Circe's Lament: An Anthology of Wild Women Poetry from Accents Publishing
Years later and she's still silent in bed.
She's learned to say grace, but sings only alone...

Collage of Seoul review at The Drunken Odyssey blog
I should tell you upfront that Jae Newman is my friend. I don’t want you to read the glowing review I’m about to write about his first poetry collection, Collage of Seoul (Cascade Books, 2015) and later feel you were tricked by a biased reader. This is going to be a glowing review because Collage of Seoul is the kind of poetry that I love...

"Dream Sonnet" at Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine
My friend believes her dreams to be prophetic.
I hardly credit mine...

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"Having a Baby Made Me an Atheist" in Atheists in America from Columbia University Press
My husband and I attended peace rallies laden like picnickers with turkey sandwiches, bags of barbecue chips and jugs of limeade. We didn’t make posters or write protest songs, but if we had they might have said something about the terror of becoming parents in a world where both freedom and safety seemed lost...

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