03/22/2010

There were sticks in my hands.
The sticks were taken away.
There were
two horses and one was red.

BIO:

Anne Marie Rooney's first book, Spitshine, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She has won the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and the Amy Award, and been featured in the Best New Poets and Best American Poetry anthologies. Born and raised in NYC, she currently lives in New Orleans.
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