The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (New Southern Voices Poetry Prize) Anthony Ham Being wealthy

Being wealthy

hungry ghosts

despite her love of big cities

idly dreaming of escaping the mess she’s created

An homage to New York City

The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (New Southern Voices Poetry Prize) Anthony Ham Being wealthyThe Girl Who Became a Rabbit, is a book length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story. Examining reclaimed narratives of embodiment, gentle hauntings, and fables of the body, Emilie Menzel approaches the body as a home we consciously build, spinning myths and fairytales as ways to rewrite the bodys history. In the spirit of Maggie