Jody Gladding

Poetry

For these poems, through-lines in bold offer a way in. Other words constellate around the through-lines, and readers are free to move about the page as they please. The poem opens into a three-dimensional space where things can happen simultaneously. And differently with each reading.

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Jody Gladding is a poet and translator with four books of poetry, most recently the spiders my arms (Ahsahta Press, 2018), and forty translations from French. Her awards include Dora Maar, MacDowell, and Stegner Fellowships, Whiting Writers’ Award, and Yale Younger Poets Prize. These poems are from a forthcoming collection.

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