Anna M. Evans’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the Editor of the Raintown Review. Recipient of a 2011 Fellowship from the MacDowell Artists’ Colony, she currently teaches at West Windsor Art Center and […]
Anna M. Evans
Anna M. Evans: The Professionals
We cherish what we gain through self-disguise. In satin and stilettos I perform for you: no light can silhouette my form into a woman I would recognize. I’ve taken it before you sense it’s gone as though the bulky load I need to hide is balsa light, or hollowed out inside. Such are the truths […]
Anna M. Evans: The Mistress
It’s time you left again. Then what? You touch your lips to mine, get dressed and find your shoes. You understand, I do not ask for much. When you have problems I become the crutch you lean upon. I listen to your blues; it’s time you left again, then. What you touch is under tablecloths […]
Anna M. Evans: Orca and the Girl
A veteran trainer at Orlando’s SeaWorld was dragged under water to her death Wednesday in the jaws of Tilikum, the oldest and largest killer whale in captivity, as horrified onlookers watched. ~ NYdailynews.com 2/25/2010 Expecting tricks, the peanut-crunching crowd hushed as the bullet-bodied killer whale, Tilikum, the masterful, the proud, butted the girl, a move […]