Hilary S. Jacqmin earned her MA from Johns Hopkins University and her MFA from the University of Florida. She lives in Baltimore, MD, where she is an associate production editor and catalog coordinator at Johns Hopkins University Press. Her first book of poems, Missing Persons, was published by Waywiser Press in March 2017. Her work has […]
Hilary Jacqmin
Hilary Jacqmin: Private Lives
They have retired to lost pines and BurgerTime. When our tan Malibu grinds up the switchback to their mock- Tahitian Village in the Texas hills, the grandparents can barely stand to touch us. But “Little David,” they cry out, until my father blushes. Kindness is cold champagne coupes at 5 and 6 o’clock, then Jeopardy. […]