J. C. Todd
Im Kopf ist es dunkel
after Uli Zwerenz
In the head it is dark
a monolog
where not-a-hunch
meets hunch
a stand-off where one
cancels I
mouth filled with dirt
and night
its straightforward
libel
J. C. Todd is a Pew Fellow in the Arts and winner of the 2016 International Literary Awards’ Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women Writers. She is a 2016 Fellow at Ucross and Ragdale and a finalist for the 2015 Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Award. Author of a poetry collection, What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008), and two chapbooks, she has had poems in the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, Wild River Review and elsewhere. A consultant with the Dodge Foundation’s Poetry Program and Festival, she is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program at Rosemont College, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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after Uli Zwerenz
In the head it is dark
a monolog
where not-a-hunch
meets hunch
a stand-off where one
cancels I
mouth filled with dirt
and night
its straightforward
libel
J. C. Todd is a Pew Fellow in the Arts and winner of the 2016 International Literary Awards’ Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women Writers. She is a 2016 Fellow at Ucross and Ragdale and a finalist for the 2015 Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Award. Author of a poetry collection, What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008), and two chapbooks, she has had poems in the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, Wild River Review and elsewhere. A consultant with the Dodge Foundation’s Poetry Program and Festival, she is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program at Rosemont College, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Return to November 2016 Edition