A thousand years before I started
worrying about how to cook the chicken,
I’d wander around the big state fair
Nicole Callihan
Nicole Callihan
Nicole Callihan’s first book of poems, Fly by Night, will be published by Sock Monkey Press in early 2014. A Senior Language Lecturer at New York University, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughters.
Nicole Callihan: The Fifth of July
It’s usually the train that wakes me. The deep low whistle fills the room, and it takes me a minute to remember where we are, to realize that we’re far away from Brooklyn, that we’re in Joplin, in my husband’s childhood bed in the house that his grandmother, Evelyn, bought in 1944 with funds from […]