Merie Kirby grew up in California and now lives in North Dakota. She teaches at the University of North Dakota. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Dog Runs On and The Thumbelina Poems. Her poems have been published in Mom Egg Review, Rogue Agent, Orange Blossom Review, FERAL, Strange Horizons, and other journals. […]
Merie Kirby
Merie Kirby: What I learned from my dinner party
;”>We have 18 forks, just enough for 18 people to twirl spaghetti around, but we do not have 10 kid plates, and so they had to use paper bowls. We do not have 8 salad plates, or we do, but some are in storage. We have 8 wineglasses, which it turns out can hold 5 […]