Anne Dyer Stuart’s publications include AGNI, The American Journal of Poetry, Raleigh Review, Third Coast, Cherry Tree, Sugar House Review, The Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing, and The Louisville Review. Her work won a Henfield Prize, New South Journal’s Prose Contest, was anthologized in Best of the Web, and nominated for Best New […]
Anne Dyer Stuart
Anne Dyer Stuart: Daddy’s Sisters
One died, but before that, stopped speaking to him. Last time I saw her she said, I just shoved an onion up a turkey’s butt. Outside our car Thanksgiving Day, squat like me, short with child feet, her voice the burnt thunder of a smoker. At Christmas the living room filled with every kind of […]
Anne Dyer Stuart: Running with My Father
My father taught me how to run, brother’s boxers at fourteen, feet too short for running shoes, I slapped pavement in thick, baby high-tops, three miles like miracles. We’d wind up neighborhoods around the levee, fend off dogs, sure any minute I’d feel the sink of teeth in my Popeye calf, that snarl more threatening […]