Who Let the Dogs Out? A Review of Babygirl
If you count my two unsuccessful (all cough no high) undergraduate attempts to smoke weed…
Author Haley Hodges
Haley Hodges
Haley Hodges is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Seattle Pacific University
Taylor Swift is our Greatest Confessional Poet
Confessional poetry has had a haunted reputation from its post-war onset. The literary legacies of…
Poem: Teacher
TEACHER I know I’ve made a christ of you the way I gather up the…
America The Bisected
Like most of us, I spent the past week in a state of deep reflection…
Poem: ‘Calling All Angels’
Calling All Angels Leaves fall like secret prayers— calling all angels September’s having her best…
Poem: ‘They Have Gained An Audience’
THEY HAVE GAINED AN AUDIENCE with the divine. The plumbline is vertical as the resulting…
Poem: ‘And Not Your Garments’
And Not Your Garments Lord, Lord this my heart full of secrets, seeds I know…
Poem: ‘Year of The’ by Haley Hodges
Year of The Restless at the kitchen table, year of our Lord twenty twenty-four, year…
Poem: No Record of Wrongs
No Record of Wrongs Love does keep a record of some things— your solitary walks…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Belshazzar I never knew myself to have a Persian beard, now, This is odd, this…
Advent Poem by Haley Hodges
Advent We have endured long in the dark. It is a burden (A magic? A…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Faking It When Cleopatra rolled Out of the rug, she thought: Don’t worry! Even if…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
Kyrie Rotten fruit, rotten root. Hands up Don’t shoot. Kyrie eleison. By the waters of…
Poetry: Haley Hodges
The Sacred Mundane 1 We might say with confidence that the world is a lovely…
Poetry – Haley Hodges
Make of me, too, a microcosm Make of me, too, a microcosm— Merger, marry, manifest…