Talvikki Ansel was educated at Mount Holyoke, Indiana University and Stanford, where she had a Stegnar Fellowship. She has published in
Atlantic Monthly, New Republic and
Poetry and has received a Pushcart Prize. Her books are
My Shining Archipelago, which received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1996, and
Jetty (Zoo Press, 2003). She lives in Rhode Island. “John Clare” originally appeared in
Shenandoah 45/3.
Spondee; name – damp earth and distance. This is what it’s like to leave – first the dirt, robin perched on the handle of the spade; Mary, up- ending a bucket for him to sit while she hisses the milk … Continue reading →