Brittney Scott’s first poetry collection, The Derelict Daughter, won the 2015 New American Press Poetry Prize. She is also a recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry, as well as the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2014, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Narrative […]
Brittney Scott
Brittney Scott: Daughter of Wild Lettuce
My mother plants snow peas behind the garage. She works around the sink hole that takes dry leaves and garbage all summer. In her memory, I am an almost abortion. She plants marigolds with the tomatoes, symbiotic bright suns bursting between the rows. Sometimes she knows, love abounding, sometimes she overlooks an entire season’s glut, […]
Brittney Scott: After the Hunt
Here’s the body the dogs robbed— the limbs strewn around the field like prophecy. She won’t make it, they say. They say the body found in her bed was eaten right through to the floral mattress. They had to shut her eyes because she would not stop blinking up at a bone marrow colored sky, […]
Brittney Scott
Brittney Scott’s first poetry collection, The Derelict Daughter, won the 2015 New American Press Poetry Prize. She is also a recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry, as well as the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2014, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Narrative […]
Brittney Scott: Daughter of Wild Lettuce
My mother plants snow peas behind the garage. She works around the sink hole that takes dry leaves and garbage all summer. In her memory, I am an almost abortion. She plants marigolds with the tomatoes, symbiotic bright suns bursting between the rows. Sometimes she knows, love abounding, sometimes she overlooks an entire season’s glut, […]
Slush Pile Episode 009 is Posted: Featuring Poetry by Brittney Scott
We’re excited to announce that Slush Pile Episode 009 is up now! As most of you know, Slush Pile listeners get the unique experience of hearing our editorial process and discovering which submissions are accepted by the end of the episode! In this episode, our Abu Dhabi staff in New York discusses poems by Brittney […]