Gillian Cummings

Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (forthcoming in November 2018) and My Dim Aviary, winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Boulevard, The Journal, The Laurel Review, Linebreak, Verse Daily, and previously in Tupelo Quarterly. Her website is www.gilliancummingspoet.com.

When the house had eyes, it looked outside. Looked over the black street in bewilderment. […]

House of No Memory by Gillian Cummings

March 14, 2020 in Poetry tagged Gillian Cummings by Wendy Chen

In this life, save the body which is the fruit of many lives. Espaliered pear: how […]

To Limn a Limbed Thing by Gillian Cummings

June 14, 2018 in Poetry tagged Gillian Cummings by Kristina Marie Darling

Unbearable, the snowdrops, as if winter could be something lived through. Overmuch, this reminder of life, […]

Faint Stars of Dread by Gillian Cummings

June 14, 2018 in Poetry tagged Gillian Cummings by Kristina Marie Darling

Because only dwarf birches grow here, we dream of tall trees. Where we came from, a […]

Forgotten Forests in a Land of Little Green by Gillian ...

February 14, 2018 in TQ14 Poetry Open Contest tagged Gillian Cummings by Kristina Marie Darling

Just this light. And it might go on forever. Stare straight. The sun wants your shadow […]

At the Council of a Sleepless Solstice by Gillian Cummings

February 14, 2018 in TQ14 Poetry Open Contest tagged Gillian Cummings by Kristina Marie Darling