Plenty To nanny ghosts or just baby them chill children, subtracted adults I hold a ghost in the bassinet of my mouth a cherry tomato without a crown Things I’ve learned: an AMBER alert is a bacronym, created to honor the kidnapped and murdered girl who inspired it all-capped and angry ghost in a letter behind which is a hidden room a whole word a harnessed sound the bacronym and acronym a kind of camping chair making cartable the broader seat of a phrase a kind of bacon that’s an…
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Kristi Maxwell is the author of REALM SIXTY-FOUR (Ahsahta Press, 2008), HUSH SESSIONS (Saturnalia, 2009), RE- (Ahsahta Press, 2011), THAT OUR EYES BE RIGGED (Saturnalia Books, 2014), and PLAN/K (Horse Less Press, 2015). Her honors include the Greta Wrolstad Scholarship for Young Poets through the Summer Literary Seminars, the Phyllis Smart- Young Prize in Poetry, and the Margaret Sterling Memorial Award.
Kristi is born in 1981 and currently lives in Kentucky, US. She is a professor of English in the University of Louisville.