My Mouth is the Mouth of a River
a burning haibun
by torrin a. greathouse
Selected as the poetry winner of the 2020 Beacon Street Prize by Ocean Vuong author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk & MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018) & assistant editor of The Shallow Ends. Their work is published/forthcoming in POETRY, Ploughshares, & The Kenyon Review. She is the youngest ever winner of the Poetry Foundation’s J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize.
My Mouth is the Mouth of a River
a burning haibun
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