We are very proud to announce that Leah Poole Osowski has just published her first book of poetry, hover over her, which won the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize and features the poem “Salvador Dali–female figure with head of flowers,” (first published in Issue 92 of Painted Bride Quarterly)! Congratulations, Leah, we absolutely love to see […]
Leah Poole Osowski
Leah Poole Osowski
Leah Poole Osowski’s first collection, Hover Over Her (Kent State University Press 2016), won the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, New Delta Review, Salamander, and Third Coast, […]
Leah Poole Osowski: Female with Head of Flowers after Salvador Dali—female figure with head of flowers—1937
Does she see with her stamens? Cry in pollen and bees? A face in the desert must wilt, but look at her saunter, a swagger of hips, a leading thigh. Like a mockingbird chest the curve of her belly, shoulders dabbed with the scent of stature. Waterspouts spin from their coasts, cross prairies when she […]