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Emily Kingery

Emily Kingery

March 18, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Emily Kingery teaches English at a small university in Iowa. Her work appears widely in journals, including Birdcoat Quarterly, CutBank, Eastern Iowa Review, GASHER, Gingerbread House, Midwest Review, New South, Plainsongs, Quarter After Eight, and Trampoline, among others, and she has been both a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, as well as […]

Filed Under: Contributors 101, Issue 101 Tagged With: Emily Kingery

Emily Kingery: Funeral for a Cat

March 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

When the cat was killed by a driver in a tragic hit-and-run, the dirt bike kid watched it happen. He screamed to gather us to her carcass: Pumpkin! He pedaled hard around the block. Pumpkin is dead!    I was afraid to tell Dad, at first. He went outside, shoveled Pumpkin into a grocery bag […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Emily Kingery

Emily Kingery: Dirtbag Wilderness

March 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Our dirtbags, our dirtbags  were medicine men.    They spoke as oracles,  capped bottles, skated    razorblades across  the glass of pictures.    It’s just like shoveling snow,  laughed our dirtbags    as they unburied  their parents’ faces.    Like raking leaves,  want to try?   We watched their hands  swap bills, our eyes    […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Emily Kingery

Emily Kingery: Wolf at the Door

March 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Her neighbor is hungry, shaking  drawers for a blade.    His gums are tender  worms in wet spring. She hooks    her fingers into ornaments to hang on his jaws.    Her grandmother’s wisdom  was to feed    umbilical things, to nourish as roots ripped to lace    in her hands. He comes  where the […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Emily Kingery

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