“My father’s ashes
sit on a bookcase,
waiting for a promised trip
to San Francisco,
where he spent the
best years
of his life.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Crosscurrents” by Stacie M. Kiner from Vol. 34:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Stacie M. Kiner is a former fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and Hannah Kahn Memorial Award recipient. Her poems have been published in CALYX Journal, The Charlotte Poetry Review, Madison Review, Comstock Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Apalachee Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, Lavender Review, Panoply, Rhino, The Southeast Review, SWWIM, Chameleon Chimera, An Anthology of Florida Poets and, Finishing Line Press, New Women’s Voices Series – the chapbook, Inventory. Stacie is the former moderator of a poetry talk show in Miami, a retired librarian, Essays Editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and an urban gardener. She lives in South Florida with her wife and too many tomato plants.