Wendy Noonan lives in Portland, Oregon with her son, boyfriend, and Frankenstein, the cat. She teaches freshman composition at Portland State University. Her poems have appeared in Permafrost, Diner, and Bolts of Silk, but her only permanent gig is with the Noonan family Christmas letter.
Wendy Noonan
Wendy Noonan: Loom, Luminous
There’s the platter of meats laid out for our guests; wine, deviled-egg sandwiches; and the open field, scrubby and littered, under the fire escape where the kids go to smoke; there’s the broken down Toppys furniture truck in that field, and the old men walking up Mississippi smelling like cigars and fifty years of dumb […]