My poem, “Monster: A Cento,” has been accepted for publication in Red Door Magazine in Spring 2026. This poem was written on the day the Oklahoma state legislature passed a law—at the time the most restrictive in the U.S.—banning abortion at conception. A cento is a poem that is made up of lines from the work of other poets. This one was created from the first lines of poems written by the (relatively few) women in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by J. D. McClatchy.
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