Anne Barngrover, Author at Witness

Anne Barngrover

Anne Barngrover’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Indiana Review, Nimrod, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Smartish Pace, among others. She is a first-year PhD candidate in Poetry at the University of Missouri.

Driving down from Georgia and the Doors Are Painted Blue

By Anne Barngrover

Poetry•Vol. XXVI No. 1 (Spring 2013)

The devil does my dirty work: I wish you could know and not know. The devil squats at Fat Mac’s BBQ. The devil suckles beer–can chicken to beer–can bone. Shot Well Road. Quail Rise Road. Signs say, chicks here, rabbits here, Jesus is here, and the churches are white and poor. The funnel cloud is… [Read More]