Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a Montreal-based American poet. Her work has been honored with a Hopwood Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Michigan Quarterly Review’s Page Davidson Clayton Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil, appearing/forthcoming in Denver Quarterly Review, Narrative, The Common, Words without Borders, and Best New Poets, among others. She holds […]
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren: Estuarial
I’m beyond the wooden houses on stilts anchored in muck, beyond where grizzlies dig for clams exposed when the tide goes out & sunlight fills the slough. Around my waist, algae—green skin taut as milk heated over a flame. The grainy mud moves as I move, expanding, contracting between the pressure […]