Rachel Edelman grew up in Memphis. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in TYPO, Day One, Southern Humanities Review, Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. She is a current MFA candidate in Poetry and instructor of creative writing at the University of Washington. In 2015, she was awarded the Loren D. Milliman Fellowship. She lives […]
Rachel Edelman
Rachel Edelman: Memphis Blue
“Dis here Memphis It may go; Floods may drown it; Tornado blow;” Sterling A. Brown, “Memphis Blues” Susie knew how to get her FEMA check. She’d already called the hotline the day after the flood before we brought over the Shop-Vac and got the fans going. Her grandkids were upstairs: Derek on the couch […]