Amy Newlove Schroeder, Author at Witness

Amy Newlove Schroeder

Amy Newlove Schroeder's first book, The Sleep Hotel, received the Field Prize and was published by Oberlin in 2010. Her poems and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades. She currently lives and teaches in Los Angeles.

I Abandon Poetry Altogether

By Amy Newlove Schroeder

Poetry•Vol. XXIV No. 3 (Fall 2011)

At the party the body of the young man makes me look I look The lean uninflected flesh of the belly This casual skin Men looked Now I look The boy dives in the water, then otters back, smiling at me He doesn’t know that bodies can empty like jars He doesn’t know that I… [Read More]

Strait

By Amy Newlove Schroeder

Poetry•Vol. XXIV No. 3 (Fall 2011)

the day goes by piecemeal shroud-light in the afternoon twisted wire face in the mirror your name carved on my collarbone I am a woman now ragged cuticle, flaking lip skin a dry cracked dirt road my hair a noose around my neck & skin like muslin soaked in blood I am what you made… [Read More]