Terese Coe
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: With a miCRo this diminutive, we’d like to keep our own words about it to a minimum. Suffice it to say that the Latinate title and austere form belie the depth of the message behind the poem, which is a reflection of this Anthropocene era and all that is rapidly receding.
A Posteriori
According to the evidence
available, we’re here.
Further indications show
that here will disappear.
Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Threepenny Review, and the Times Literary Supplement, among many other journals. Her collection Shot Silk (White Violet Press, 2015) was listed for the 2017 Poets Prize, and copies of her poem “More” were heli-dropped across London as part of the 2012 Olympics Rain of Poems. Her third collection, Why You Can’t Go Home Again, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books this November.
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