“Forgive me if the books I might have written linger like a miscarriage.
That word—as in miscarriage of justice—and what is justice now
that the surprise quickening of my youngest might have felt
less blessing than sentence. I had a choice, and still somedays
I lament the sentence I’ve been given and not given.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Dispatch from the Unwritten” by Megan Gannon from Vol. 34:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Megan Gannon is the author of Cumberland, a novel, and White Nightgown, poems. Her work has been published in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Notre Dame Review, and most recently in Atlanta Review, Boulevard, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She is an Associate Professor of English at Ripon College in Wisconsin.