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Therese Gleason

Therese Gleason

March 18, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Therese Gleason is author of Libation (2006), co-winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition; her second chapbook, Matrilineal, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. A Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Worcester Review, America, New Ohio Review, San Pedro River Review, Literary Mama, Psaltery & Lyre, Halfway Down the Stairs, […]

Filed Under: Contributors 101, Issue 101 Tagged With: Therese Gleason

Therese Gleason: Milk Teeth

March 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Did you know teeth  are the only part of the skeleton you can see?   I massage my daughter’s bottom incisors,  little nubs budding  in slobbery beds.   I have never broken a bone, but once I cracked a tooth with my midnight clenching. At fifteen, they sliced tender gums to carve my wisdom teeth […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Therese Gleason

Therese Gleason: Found Rose: Antique Rose Garden

March 4, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

South Carolina Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens   I.   Rosa X, small and hardy, plundered from family cemetery. You’re a climber, limber on the trellis, tiny pink petals brown and papery at the edges. Rose rustlers, skilled in the archaeology of flowers, plucked you from your grave bed:  a resurrection.   II.   White […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Therese Gleason

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