Meghan McClure

Meghan McClure is author of the chapbook Portrait of a Body in Wreckages (Newfound Press, 2017) and co-author of A Single Throat Opens (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Her poems and essays have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Water~Stone Review, American Literary Review, Pithead Chapel, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in California.

---

Re- by Meghan McClure

This entry was posted in Poetry and tagged Meghan McClure on March 14, 2019 by Marlee Gaffey

    Rejoice! they say. Forget that you learned to keep your arms at your sides, your hands tucked in your lap like a tissue for emergencies only. Forget that rejoice means to have joy again & again. I stay awake, I think of the long road ahead paved with […]

---

In Place of an Apology by Meghan McClure

This entry was posted in Poetry and tagged Meghan McClure on March 14, 2019 by Marlee Gaffey

    Let me say this, please. Today I ignored the knot of laundry & my daughter’s cry because sometimes I am the spider & sometimes I am the heel coming down on a spider. Today I was nothing you wanted & everything I found in the recycling bin. When […]

---