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Tanya Grae

Tanya Grae

July 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Tanya Grae was born in South Carolina while her father was stationed at Shaw, and she grew up moving to random Air Force towns like Little Rock, Minot, Tucson, Panama City, and Homestead. This survivalist training prepared her for a litany of jobs, academia, and parenting three humans, two of whom are now adulting. Her […]

Filed Under: Contributors 100, Issue 100 Tagged With: Tanya Grae

Tanya Grae: Dear Ozy—

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I named all my cities for you in this play of civilization, What You Can’t Know (or How Millennia Collapse to Seconds). I drove to St. Simons & ate dinner at the same table, but not the same meal. Oceans feed tears to oysters— little tombs of mouth & foot. I knelt in the morning […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Tanya Grae

Tanya Grae: Duchess

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

There she stands as if alive.                                  — Robert Browning     If you would just be a better wife. If you would just be a better mother. If you would just be like my mother. If you would just get off the computer. If you would just get […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Tanya Grae

Tanya Grae: The Unfaithful Housewife

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

             after Federico García Lorca / after Conor O’Callaghan     no one led me to the river          & I was not a virgin because I had a husband & you          those long weekends in Mobile I should have stayed          the street lights weren’t on yet as I parked at the restaurant […]

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Tanya Grae

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